Rails - Mar 2008 - Filtering out XML results ----- /people.xml?title=Manager

I''m using RESTful Rails, and I''m not sure how to filter out
the XML
sheet by title.

I thought you could simply type in something like this:
/people.xml?title=CEO, but it''s not filtering for me.

What would I have to do to be able to filter out the results correctly?
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Bob,

I haven''t actually used XML with Rails, but by my understanding,
calling:

/people.xml?title=CEO

is technically no different than calling:

/people?title=CEO

It just gives you the option to handle it via XML because of the
respond_to. You still have to process the parameters, i.e. in the
PeoplesController class for the "index" action, you might simply have:

  def index
    @people = Person.find_all_by_title(params[:title])

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.xml  { render :xml => @people }
    end
  end

You could probably get fancy with some metaprogramming but that might
be more than necessary.

HTH!

-Danimal

On Mar 29, 4:54 pm, Bob Sanders
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m using RESTful Rails, and I''m not sure how to filter
out the XML
> sheet by title.
>
> I thought you could simply type in something like this:
> /people.xml?title=CEO, but it''s not filtering for me.
>
> What would I have to do to be able to filter out the results correctly?
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Danimal, you made it a million times more clearer. Thank you so much for
the great explanation. I really appreciate it! :)
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