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Cameron
Cameron

Reputation: 4211

Getting JSON back from rails with respond_with

I have a jquery ajax call that goes to the create action, and I need to get the response back as JSON to then do something with it on the page in the success ajax function, but for some reason with rails it keeps throwing a missing template error:

class MembersController < ApplicationController
  respond_to :json

  def create
    @member = @group.members.build
    @member.user_id = params[:user_id]
    respond_with(@member) if @member.save
  end
end

Should I be rendering nothing at all?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4718

Answers (2)

Alex Neth
Alex Neth

Reputation: 3346

I believe you should be using

respond_with(@member)

Removing the conditional.

This will use an "Unprocessable Entity" for json requests with an invalid object.

Upvotes: 7

alex.zherdev
alex.zherdev

Reputation: 24174

If @member.save fails, then the default rendering will take place, which means that rails will try to render create.*.erb, or create.rjs, etc. You probably want to do

def create
  @member = @group.members.build
  @member.user_id = params[:user_id]
  if @member.save
    respond_with(@member)
  else
    render :nothing => true
  end 
end

Upvotes: 4

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