similar to: respond_to for unknown type

I''m having a problem in Rails 2 where respond_to is always rendering the RXML view even in the HTML rendering response. Can anyone tell me why this might be happening? Here''s a code snippet: respond_to do |accepts| accepts.html accepts.xml { render :action => ''show.rxml'', :layout => false} end If I change this to the following it works fine:

I am playing around with the idea of adding to the HTTP_ACCEPT header method and trying to utilize WURFL for detecting mobile devices by USER_AGENT instead. I''m thinking I will set up some kind of before_filter in my controller, to intercept all requests and compare the USER_AGENT to some data source. If I detect that the USER_AGENT is a mobile device, then I''d like to force a

I really like the new mime type handler however I was trying to convert some code and couldn''t figure out how. My rails action was handle 2 formats, html and xml respond_to do |format| format.html # show.html.erb format.xml do if @account.active? && @account.valid_referer?(session[:referer]) render :xml => @account.to_xml(:except

Not sure if this is the right avenue to discuss this but I couldn''t find anywhere to ask this question on Rails Trac. Regarding this latest changeset: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/6507 (Change default respond_to templates for xml and rjs formats.) Does anyone know the rationale behind it? I can imagine there would be an announcement in the future about this backward

After reading: <http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000572.html> I''m trying to experiment with respond_to in order to not repeat myself and create atom feeds out of a "browse" view. In application controller I created a before filter that checks for the extension of the current url and changes the accept header: [code] def check_headers @headers["Accept"]

Hello All, I''m trying to figure out how respond_to actually works, especially with the increased focus on REST. After I set a MIME type for Excel Mime::Type.register "application/vnd.ms-excel", :xls In my index action''s respond_to block I have format.xls { @parts = Part.find(:all) headers[''Content-Type''] =

Hi everyone, I am a bit confused with xhr? and respond_to. I have the folloing code in my view to update the ''emails'' ID link_to_remote(image_tag("refresh"), :update => "emails", :url => { :action => "list_emails" }) in the controller side i have somthing like : [..] respond_to do |type| type.html { render :action

I''ve got an application that will have a handful of lookup tables. To be clear by this I mean tables that only have two attributes, id, name and are used to provide drop-down lists for other tables/forms so that these fields have "standard" values. I need 5 to 10 of these tables. I''m a ruby/rails neophyte but I''ve read Agile Web Devel with Rails, Rails

Title: Nested serialization with to_json and to_xml with array and hash element class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address has_one :job def office() return "Executive_Suite" end end class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end class Job < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person has_one :paygrade def Title return "Engineer" end end

Searched around this forum, but didn''t find an answer for this question. Can you help this newbie understand any overlap and/or difference between request.xhr? and respond_to? If request.xhr? is true, should I expect it wants.js below? respond_to do |wants| wants.html { redirect_to(person_list_url) } wants.js wants.xml { render :xml => @person.to_xml(:include

I''m trying to assign a parent foreign key value using collection_select from my child "new" form. The problem I''m having is if I do not make a selection, I get the following error instead of the Rails validates_presence_of error: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating

Ez (or someone) asked on #merb tonight whether respond_to was the right API for what it does. After some discussion and pasties, I offer the following proposed API for content negotiation and response format selection: First, what does respond_to do right now? I see at as performing 3 distinct operations: 1. parse params[:format] and the accepts header to find out what format the

Hi,From within an action called manager within a controller called storedorders, I want to render to the view for the manger action of controller orders. It really seems like the following syntax should work: (within the StoredordersController manager method...) respond_to do |format| format.html {render :controller => ''orders'', :action =>

I have the following models class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ingredient_recipes has_many :ingredients, :through => :ingredient_recipes end class IngredientRecipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :ingredient belongs_to :recipe end class Ingredient < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ingredient_recipes has_many :recipes, :through => :ingredient_recipes

Is there a way to add a mime type of my own to respond_to ? There''s html, xml, js, ical etc ... But I want to be able to respond_to Excel. Excel has the following content-type header: application/vnd.ms-excel I want to use the new ?format=xml querystring parameters that respond_to can respond to. So I want to pass in ?format=xsl or ?format=ms-excel so that I can return my results

Recently I was implementing PDF generation for a project utilizing the fantastic library Prince XML (http://www.princexml.com). I came across a blog article with a basic library and helper set for Prince (http:// sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on- rails), which provided a great basis. I wanted to make something a little more generalized and in-keeping the Rails

I have an index method with a respond_to block that produces this error: NoMethodError (You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.accepts): The show method has the same respond_to block but doesn''t error out. If I take the respond_to block out of the index method, it works. If I give index params[:keywords] I get this error:

Hello all, I have developed a RESTFul webservice in RoR. Here under is the controller --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class PeopleController < ApplicationController def index list render :action => ''list'' end # GETs should be safe (see http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html)

Hello, In my rails application, I have a book model. I want to add tags. For that I have installed acts_as_taggable_on_steroids from this link http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids and do as the readme file. This is my Model : class Book < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_taggable end Here is my ApplicationHelper : module

I''m trying to use respond_to to redirect visitors who have JS turned off to a different page. The problem I''m having is that respond_to is sending *everybody* there. It''s not recognizing that JS is turned on in the browser. The wanted_html.rhtml file below is rendered whether I''ve got JS turned on or off. I''ve looked at the Accept headers being sent