diff --git a/app/logical/application_responder.rb b/app/logical/application_responder.rb
index 1ac4a1d75..eb9baac34 100644
--- a/app/logical/application_responder.rb
+++ b/app/logical/application_responder.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class ApplicationResponder < ActionController::Responder
       options[:root] ||= resource.table_name.dasherize if resource.respond_to?(:table_name)
     end
 
-    options[:only] ||= params["only"].scan(/\w+/).map(&:to_sym) if params["only"]
+    options[:only] ||= params["only"].scan(/\w+/) if params["only"]
 
     super
   end
diff --git a/app/models/application_record.rb b/app/models/application_record.rb
index 767c92a18..cb7877af3 100644
--- a/app/models/application_record.rb
+++ b/app/models/application_record.rb
@@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
       options[:include] ||= []
       options[:methods] ||= []
 
+      options[:only] = options[:only].map(&:to_sym)
+
       attributes, methods = api_attributes.partition { |attr| has_attribute?(attr) }
       methods += options[:methods]
       includes = options[:include]
diff --git a/test/functional/tags_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/tags_controller_test.rb
index 6d458fb07..b555957ba 100644
--- a/test/functional/tags_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/functional/tags_controller_test.rb
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ class TagsControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
         get autocomplete_tags_path, params: { search: { name_matches: "t" }, format: :json }
         assert_response :success
       end
+
+      should "respect the only param" do
+        get autocomplete_tags_path, params: { search: { name_matches: "t", only: "name" }, format: :json }
+
+        assert_response :success
+        assert_equal "touhou", response.parsed_body.first["name"]
+      end
     end
 
     context "show action" do