CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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MID
MID

Reputation: 1825

How to send simple json response in Rails?

I need to send json response depends on user entered data in input, but I'm failing to send simple json request.

I followed this article - http://paydrotalks.com/posts/45-standard-json-response-for-rails-and-jquery .

Added MimeType:

Mime::Type.register_alias "application/json", :jsonr, %w( text/x-json )

and in my controller:

 def checkname
  respond_to do |format|
    format.jsonr do
      render :json => { 
         :status => :ok, 
         :message => "Success!",
         :html => "<b>congrats</b>"
      }.to_json
     end  
  end
end

but the screen is empty and here is response code from fiddler2 when I composed GET response to this action:

    HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
   Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
   X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge
   Cache-Control: no-cache
   X-Request-Id: 14a8467908d9ce322d054607efdacf92
   X-Runtime: 0.011000
   Content-Length: 1
   Connection: keep-alive
  Server: thin 1.4.1 codename Chromeo

What I'm doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 40

Views: 86574

Answers (4)

elvack
elvack

Reputation: 71

The simplest way is render json: {foo: 'bar'}

Upvotes: 6

Somesh Sharma
Somesh Sharma

Reputation: 569

One Simple way is:

def my_action 

 render :json => {:name => "any name"}

end

Upvotes: 10

dalmate
dalmate

Reputation: 481

I usually use this method to return json data:

msg = {:token => token, :courseId => courseId}
render :json => msg

Upvotes: 25

Lukas Stejskal
Lukas Stejskal

Reputation: 2562

Not sure about dealing with custom MIME, but as for rendering JSON, this should work: 

def testme
  respond_to do |format|
    msg = { :status => "ok", :message => "Success!", :html => "<b>...</b>" }
    format.json  { render :json => msg } # don't do msg.to_json
  end
end

Also it might help if you state which version of Ruby and Rails you are using.

Upvotes: 38

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