title: Rails inverse of pluck()/select()
body: <p>I'm building a <code>Rails</code> API and I would like to know if there is a way to return the attributes of my object, but I don't want to return all of the attributes. Is there a way to prevent certain attributes from being returned? For example, I would not want to return the database IDs or the timestamps</p>
  
  <p>Have a nice day.</p>