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Noz
Noz

Reputation: 6346

Rails 3 Group Mobile & Tablets w/ User Agent?

I'm trying to conditionally render/hide some html in one of my views for tablets and mobile devices such as android phones & tablets, iPhone, iPad, etc. So far I have this setup:

def mobile_agent?
  request.user_agent =~ /Mobile|webOS/
end

This seems to work good, but currently it only supports mobile devices and not tablets. I know mobile_fu groups both mobile devices and tablets under the mobile device category, however it also changes the request format which I don't want. My web application is utilizing a responsive theme so views are meant to work under any device with the exception of an embeded Unity webplayer which I wish to hide in a single view.

Is there any way I can extend the above method to include tablets as well as mobile devices?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1249

Answers (2)

tee
tee

Reputation: 4409

Try this: https://github.com/neighborland/mobu

Mobu provides a Rails controller concern called DetectMobile. Mobu does server-side User Agent detection to categorize requests as mobile, tablet, or default.

Mobu modifies your rails view paths based on the request type. It does not require custom MIME types or separate subdomains.

Upvotes: 1

Sully
Sully

Reputation: 14943

I use this one

def mobile_agent?
  request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] && request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"][/(iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|Android)/]
end

Upvotes: 7

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