active_model_serializers/docs/howto/add_root_key.md

# How to use add root key

Add the root key to your API is quite simple with AMS. The **Adapter** is what determines the format of your JSON response. The default adapter is the ```FlattenJSON``` which doesn't have the root key, so your response is something similar to:

```json
{
  id: 1,
  title: "Awesome Post Tile",
  content: "Post content"
}
```

In order to add the correspondent root key you need to use the ```JSON``` Adapter, you can change this in an initializer:

```ruby
ActiveModel::Serializer.config.adapter = :json_api
```

or

```ruby
ActiveModel::Serializer.config.adapter = ActiveModel::Serializer::Adapter::Json
```

This will add the root key to all your serialized endpoints.

ex:

```json
{
  post: {
    id: 1,
    title: "Awesome Post Tile",
    content: "Post content"
  }
}
```

or if it returns a collection:

```json
{
  posts: [
    {
      id: 1,
      title: "Awesome Post Tile",
      content: "Post content"
    },
    {
      id: 2,
      title: "Another Post Tile",
      content: "Another post content"
    }
  ]
}
```