Recently I’ve been working in backend which connects to another API, you may need to send a specific format of JSON data which is not the same as database resource.

Create A Serializable Resource

Currently I’m using active_model_serializers 0.10.0. From the documentation we know ActiveModel::Serializer wraps a serializable resource, to create a serializable resource we need to create a plain old Ruby object inherits ActiveModelSerializers::Model, then create a corresponding serializer.

For example:
```rb
class MyModel < ActiveModelSerializers::Model
def initialize(title:, body:)
@title = title
@body = body
end

def converted_body
# do something
end
end
```

class MyModelSerializer < ActiveModelSerializers::Serializer
  attributes :converted_body
end

Handling Nested JSON

You can use has_many, has_one method in ActiveModel::Serializer to handle nested json, although it doesn’t mean the same with Rails model relations.

For example:
```rb
class MyModel < ActiveModelSerializers::Model
def initialize(object: object)
@title = title
@body = body
end

def

def related_models
related_models.map do |related_model|
RelatedModel.new(related_model: related_model)
end
end
end
```

class MyModelSerializer < ActiveModelSerializers::Serializer
  has_many :related_models
end

ActiveModelSerializers::Serializer will automatically look for a serializer named RelatedModelSerializer.

Reference

Find more explainations in https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers/tree/0-10-stable#what-does-a-serializable-resource-look-like