Rails: friendly_id and to_json

I have a collection of model objects that I am trying to return JSON for. E.G

@regions.to_json(:only => [:id, :name ])

that works fine.

If I try to use :

@regions.to_json(:only => [:friendly_id, :name ]) 

then nothing is returned for the friendly_id. The model does have:

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So I am wondering what I am missing - or if I am not allowed to use friendly_id's in to_json?

Try using

@regions.to_json(:only => [:id, :cached_slug])