<someClass railsIsEasy="true" to_xml_is_easy="false"> </someClass>

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The following code will render the subject:

format.xml { render :xml => @someClass.to_xml(:except=>SomeClass.column_names)}

BUT I'm having a hard time with adding attributes railsIsEasy="true" and to_xml_is_easy="false", which are values of methods in the class. The :method option will only add another tag, it won't add it as an attribute in the xml tag. Before I code my own to_xml, I thought I'd ask to see if there is something I'm missing. I don't see anything in the api that mentions an xml attribute, except for the type in the db.

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You'll just have to override it to produce custom XML. Look at the actual implementation of #to_xml, I believe you can use options[:builder] as an Xml::Builder instance and use that to build your custom XML.

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Ok, already done, thought I would check for a more elegant solution. Thanks for the reply.