matterful_attributes

https://github.com/konung/matterful_attributes

Ruby / Rails gem that shims ActiveRecord::Base to provide some helpful methods for parsing out attributes that matter to humans, i.e. Address.first.matterful_attributes will return a hash of attributes minus id, type, polymorphic_id, polymorphic_type, cretated_at, updated_at and can also skip all foreign_keys, like category_id or status_id.