Comment on Content Negotiation And Rails by Dan Kubb

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:35:16 -0600

I love the idea of this convention.

It would be nice to have it be the convention in rails that all extensions prefixed with “r”, that are not already defined like rxml and rjs, are treated similarly to rhtml and returned with the Content-Type that corresponds to the extension.

I could see this being used along-side the new Rails 1.1 system. If you use templates for outputting to the client you might not even need to explicitly use the respond_to method at all.

Then the only reason to use respond_to would be in cases where you want to render content directly from the action and bypass templates for some reason.

I’ve not looked at the guts of Rails to see if this is possible but if you give it a shot let me know – I’d love to patch up my RESTful Rails plugin to support it. ;)

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Comment on Content Negotiation And Rails by Dan Kubb