Comments on: Rails’ respond_to method

By: Braxton in Austin » Rails respond_to issues when using IE

Braxton in Austin » Rails respond_to issues when using IE — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:28:29 +0000

[...] different times in my app. That’s why you have them right? Anyway, after reading over a related post at info.michael-simons.eu I discovered that IE was sending the wrong accept-headers. So I checked out the Prototype API and [...]

By: Braxton Beyer

Braxton Beyer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:08:24 +0000

for other’s that end up here, I was having a related issue with my ajax calls vs html pages. I fixed it by adding accept:’text/javascript’
to my options of my prototype ajax calls.

By: CSV Exports using csv_builder « While I Pondered…

CSV Exports using csv_builder « While I Pondered… — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:14:35 +0000

[...] routes, unfortunately, one that includes the :format designation and one that doesn’t. See this blog post for [...]

By: Adrian Birch: RoR

Adrian Birch: RoR — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:41:51 +0000

[...] HTML and [JSON|http://www.json.org/]. RoR deals with this by having a [respond_to|http://info.michael-simons.eu/2007/08/06/rails-respond_to-method/] [...]

By: Grails’ withFormat block | info.michael-simons.eu

Grails’ withFormat block | info.michael-simons.eu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:24:37 +0000

[...] things are not really different in Rails and Grails world. The pendant to Rails’ respond_to method is Grails withFormat [...]

By: Workaround for IE Overly Accepting in Rails’ respond_to format -- Garrick Van Buren .com

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:10:53 +0000

[...] RAILS’ RESPOND_TO METHOD – Michael Simons [...]

By: Disable Ruby On Rails Sessions | info.michael-simons.eu

Disable Ruby On Rails Sessions | info.michael-simons.eu — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:19:40 +0000

[...] which is dedicated to entirely to feed generation (yeah, i know about about REST and especially respond_to, but i wouldn’t get rid of thousands of useless sessions without: class FeedsController < [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:02:56 +0000

Hey Jilian,
glad to hear that someone can make use of my findings and even better, that it works with other formats as well.

I can tell you, it was devasteting, that this wonderful function won’t work properly in IE.

But to be fair, i guess the problem is partially on the Rails Side with Rails not correctly checking the accept header, but i can be wrong.

With firefox you can change the request headers, i don’t know if its possible in IE, too. Also, it wouldn’t be a convinient user experience, i guess.

Have a nice day,
Michael.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:55:10 +0000

The project I’m working on is having the same sort of issue with IE– except with excel being favored over everything else. XML behaves nicely when placed after html in the respond_to code, but xls is always trumping, even at the end.
Your solution with :format works wonderfully. I just wish IE would act right, or that there was some way to tell IE what priority each format should have?