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tribalvibes

Reputation: 2107

Rails 3 how to force response type when request type is */*

I have a before_filter which wants to default the response type depending on various aspects of the request and parameters. E.g.,

request.format = ( params.format ||= 'html' ) if ...    # an HTML-only request/client
request.format = ( params.format ||= 'json' ) if request.xhr?

the idea being that the respond_to do |format|; format.html { ... }; format.json { ... } would then render appropriately according to the client conditions. Some of the clients are coming in as type */* (presumably this is request.content_type ?) and I want to force these to be HTML responses. Doesn't seem to be working however. What is a clean way to do this, and without setting a default type for each route ? I.e. I just want to poke the response type into the request so that respond_to will switch on it accordingly.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2640

Answers (1)

Tal
Tal

Reputation: 1448

request.format= should be an object of type MIME::Type.

So you'd have to do something like request.format = MIME::Types.type_for('html').first

Upvotes: 1

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