similar to: formats available for controller

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

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

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

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)

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:

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 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

I''m currently doing all of this just to have a drop-down list of Courses for a particular student: ===== edit template ===== <%= f.select :course, @courses, :selected => @student.course.id %> =================== ===== students controller ===== def edit @student = Student.find(params[:id]) @page_title = "Edit #{@student.full_name}" @courses =

im my web server app , i have an action to be used as a REST web service # GET /user/membership.xml?email=emailaddress def membership @user = User.find_by_email(params[:email]) respond_to do |format| format.xml { render :xml => @user.to_xml( :only => [ :first_name, :last_name, :display_name, :membership_type, :membership_at], :skip_types => true)} end end my

2006/6/28, Paul Barry <mail@paulbarry.com>: > Where can I find info about the "CRUD/resource-based features" that will be > in 1.2.0? In blogs. Especially about Railsconf and DHH''s keynotes. In trunk : http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource In DHH slides : Transcription of some slides from DHH''s talk at RubyKaigi 2006 (I suppose it must

Hi, I want to implement a search feature with the rest principles in mind. so i try to think in resources and i decided to just put in in the index method. this resource/method will be called form different places, for example a main search page for organisations but also on a "person" form in a sort of dialog screen where i can link an organisation to a person. the (live) search

Hello list, In ref. to my previous post: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/180765 I am getting "undefined local variable or method `item_path'' for #<ActionView::Base:0xb7065650>", when I try to create a new item. Following is the code in my new.rhtml <h1>New <%= @is_subitem ? ''Subitem'' : ''Item'' %></h1> <% form_tag

I issued the following curl command to post to the database using REST: curl -i -X POST -d "<heartrate><heartRate>102</ heartRate><sessionID>1002</sessionID><timeStamp>15068</timeStamp></ heartrate>" http://localhost:3000/heartrates I have tested the GET (with curl also) and it works fine! curl http://localhost:3000/heartrates/45

I tried to post this earlier, but it never came through. I''ve got something working in console, but not in controller. Any idea why? This is the plugin not the gem of acts_as_taggable *View* <code> <h1>Listing elements</h1> <% if @elements.blank? %> <p>There are currently no elements in the system tagged <%=

I want to clean my code by moving the duplicated lines : partial = render_to_string( :partial => "#{file}", :formats => [:html] ) to the pagination_partials function. ================================================= WORKING CODE: ================================================= def render_format_search_partial(file, options={}) # TODO remove this line to use the one

How should we handle requests for invalid objects which do not exist in database, ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound error ? I am writing begin-rescue as follows: def show begin @phone = Phone.find(params[:id]) rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound flash[:notice] = NONEXIST_OBJECT redirect_to :controller => :phone, :action => :index else respond_to do |format|

Hi, I''ve done AJAX calls to Rails'' Controllers before yet never required to generate a response back to the view. In this respect, I have tried to keep it moronically simple and just add a node to see that it works, yet the response doesn''t come through / isn''t interpreted as it should. Long story short, code : // Have to use Mootools to integrate a

When I call to_xml on an array, I want it to get the XML for all the elements in it. I''ve defined to_xml in my class. >> r.to_xml => "<video><id>1</id><views>2</views></video>" >> a = [r] => [#<StatisticsReport:0x3259f38 @video_id=1, @views=2>] >> a.to_xml => "<?xml version=\"1.0\"

Hi, I am having problems with REST web-service support. I have a simple controller: class DocumentsController < ApplicationController wsdl_service_name ''Documents'' web_service_api DocumentsApi web_service_scaffold :invoke def list @docs = Document.find(:all) respond_to do |wants| wants.html wants.xml { return @docs .to_xml } end end end

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