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user38684
user38684

Reputation: 171

Rendering file with MIME Type in rails

Here's the code:

render :file => @somedir + "/blah.xml"

...but the resulting MIME type is text/html when I check in FireBug. How do I specify a MIME type in this case?

Upvotes: 17

Views: 32470

Answers (5)

konyak
konyak

Reputation: 11716

Per http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Mime/Type.html, you could specify it like so:

render file: @somedir + "/blah.xml", mime_type: Mime::Type.lookup("text/xml")

Upvotes: 0

gerrit
gerrit

Reputation: 1539

render :file => @somedir + "/blah.xml", :content_type => Mime::XML

Upvotes: 16

Honza
Honza

Reputation: 4409

What about 

headers["Content-Type"] = "text/xml"

? Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 3

blindgaenger
blindgaenger

Reputation: 2080

Actually there are two ways to set the content-type (I think this is what you mean by mime-type). You should use the second option, if it works for your Rails version.

class FileController < ApplicationController

  def index
    filename = 'some.xml'

    extname = File.extname(filename)[1..-1]
    mime_type = Mime::Type.lookup_by_extension(extname)
    content_type = mime_type.to_s unless mime_type.nil?

    # 1
    #headers['Content-Type'] = content_type
    #render :file => filename

    # 2
    render :file => filename, :content_type => content_type
  end

end

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 35

srboisvert
srboisvert

Reputation: 12759

Take a look here. Basically you need to use render :xml => blah.to_xml

Upvotes: 2

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