module ActiveRecord::AttributeMethods

# => {"id"=>3, "created_at"=>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:53:04, "updated_at"=>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:53:04, "name"=>"Francesco", "age"=>22}
person.attributes
person = Person.create(name: 'Francesco', age: 22)

end
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base

Returns a hash of all the attributes with their names as keys and the values of the attributes as values.

def attributes
  @attributes.to_hash
end