Caching Model JSON with Mongoid-Cached-Json

Consider the following two Mongoid domain models, Widget and Gadget.

``` ruby widget.rb class Widget include Mongoid::Document

field :name has_many :gadgets end

``` ruby gadget.rb
class Gadget
  include Mongoid::Document

  field :name
  field :extras

  belongs_to :widget
end

And an API call that returns a collection of widgets.

get 'widgets' do
  Widget.all.as_json
end

Given many widgets, the API makes a subquery to fetch the corresponding gadgets for each widget.

Introducing mongoid-cached-json. This library mitigates several frequent problems with such code.

Adds a declarative way of specifying a subset of fields to be returned part of as_json.
Avoids a large amount of subqueries by caching document JSONs participating in the parent-child relationship.
Provides a consistent strategy for restricting child documents’ fields from being returned via the parent JSON.

Using Mongoid::CachedJson we were able to cut our JSON API average response time by about a factor of 10. Find it on Github.

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