Howto respond html or json in the same controller action with Rails 2

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Code snippet tested with Rails 2.3

  def index
    # ...
    if request.xhr?
      html = render_to_string(:partial => "list", :layout => false)
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { render :text => html }
        format.json { render :json => {:html => html, ... } }
      end
    end
  end

Note: Perhaps you ran into ActionView::MissingTemplate error and this card might help. If you call render_to_string within the format.json block, Rails will only look for an index.json template, but not for an index.erb template.

Last edit
Michael Leimstädtner
Keywords
missing, template
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted to makandra dev (2014-07-14 10:50)