From 2c240cf2e063251069ded14cc923125c858b0370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adman65 <adman1965@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:16:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Implicit detection for has_many serializer

---
 lib/active_model/serializer.rb |  2 ++
 test/serializer_test.rb        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/active_model/serializer.rb b/lib/active_model/serializer.rb
index ef68072c..14220ed0 100644
--- a/lib/active_model/serializer.rb
+++ b/lib/active_model/serializer.rb
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ module ActiveModel
           # to determine the serializer
           if options[:key] && !options[:serializer]
             options[:serializer] = const_get("#{options[:key].to_s.camelize.singularize}Serializer")
+          elsif !options[:serializer] && klass == Associations::HasMany
+            options[:serializer] = const_get("#{attr.to_s.camelize.singularize}Serializer")
           else
             options[:serializer] ||= const_get("#{attr.to_s.camelize}Serializer")
           end
diff --git a/test/serializer_test.rb b/test/serializer_test.rb
index 3a65e1ab..b4e50161 100644
--- a/test/serializer_test.rb
+++ b/test/serializer_test.rb
@@ -211,6 +211,30 @@ class SerializerTest < ActiveModel::TestCase
     }, json)
   end
 
+  def test_implicit_serializer_for_has_many
+    blog_with_posts = Class.new(Blog) do
+      attr_accessor :posts
+    end
+
+    blog_serializer = Class.new(ActiveModel::Serializer) do
+      const_set(:PostSerializer, PostSerializer)
+      has_many :posts
+    end
+
+    user = User.new
+    blog = blog_with_posts.new
+    blog.posts = [Post.new(:title => 'test')]
+
+    json = blog_serializer.new(blog, user).as_json
+    assert_equal({
+     :posts => [{
+       :title => "test", 
+       :body => nil, 
+       :comments => []
+     }]
+    }, json)
+  end
+
   def test_overridden_associations
     author_serializer = Class.new(ActiveModel::Serializer) do
       attributes :first_name