I am trying to render json for a child model that belongs_to two parent models. The models represent a college course offering. Given a course, I want to show what sections (instances of a course) are offered, and during what terms (ie semester)
Model: Course has_many sections
Term has_many sections
Section belongs_to course belongs_to section
I want to render the single course's details along with all sections. As such:
render :json => @course.to_json(:include => :sections)
However, I would also like to include the term data above sections as a means to group the sections.
courseA term1 section_a section_b term2 section_c section_d
Course is aware of Term only through Section
How can I go about doing this in the controller or the model? Can I accomplish this through to_json or must I override to_json? Perhaps my model associations need to be adjusted?
Thanks in advance!
