# How to retrieve group owners? (Rails code question)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-retrieve-group-owners-rails-code-question/153610
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 2, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-retrieve-group-owners-rails-code-question/153610 "2020-06-02T19:17:29Z")
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### Author: ![JQ331](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-retrieve-group-owners-rails-code-question/153610/5 "2020-06-04T01:44:36Z")

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This is extremely helpful–thanks. Understood you’re not able to provide further code help, but I’m hoping I can ask two general questions that others might find helpful too:

–Can you say briefly why a serializer is necessary here? (trying to understand not only for this but also other customizations)

And just a quick q–could I achieve this just in my dashboard? (creating a plugin would be a lot more organized for sure, but as I’m on a hosted plan I’m not able to directly import new plugins–it at least takes a few more steps)

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