Question : Ruby On Rails, Joins? - - - Returning in XML

I am trying to return an object retrieved from a database as xml in ruby on rails.


It is a person object that has a "has many" relationship with "pets"

My source is a bit like this:

customer = Person.find(:first,:condition => ["id"=?",person_id], :select=> 'last_name,first_name,id')
their_pets = customer.pets.find(:all,:select => 'name,species,id')

render :xml => customer.to_xml

This does not return any of the pet information.  I can return the pet information by doing their_pets.to_xml.  I need to returned the joined information in one XML file.


I tried:
customer.pets << their_pets
customer.to_xml

but that only returned the customer info, not the pet info.

Answer : Ruby On Rails, Joins? - - - Returning in XML

Nevermind I got it.  Used REXML.  Created document object, added roots nodes, looped through the their_pets and added pet nodes.