Hi Steve, I think this is a bug, Hobo should make it very easy to respond in JSON, XML and HTML.
I'm going to create a Github issue, thanks for sharing your workaround. Warm regards, Ignacio El 29/08/14 a las #4, [email protected] escribió: > I am having trouble getting my Hobo controllers to respond to requests > in json format. > > In a non-Hobo rails application, I am accustomed to enabling json > responses with this simple > statement at the top of a controller class definition: > > class WidgetsController < ApplicationController > respond_to :html, :json > ... > > Then, I can retrieve any valid route with '.json' appended to the URL to > see my data in JSON format rather than HTML. e.g.: > > http://localhost:3000/widgets.json > http://localhost:3000/widgets/3.json > > When I do that with a Hobo application, my output is still in HTML > (although the header tells the browser > that the content type is JSON so the browser doesn't process the HTML, > it just shows me the source). > > One workaround I've found is to define response methods like this: > > class WidgetsController < ApplicationController > ... > def show_response > respond_to do |format| > format.html do > super > end > format.json do > render json: self.this > end > end > > (I figured this out from revere-engineering the hobo source code) > > Until I find a better solution, I am deploying a workaround module that > I've written > to wrap all of the show_* methods via class_eval meta programming. > I just include it in any controller which I want to respond to JSON. i.e.: > > > class WidgetsController < ApplicationController > respond_to :html, :json > include HoboWorkarounds::RespondToJson > ... > > It's kinda kludgey but it gets the job done. > > Anybody got any suggestions for a more kosher solution? > > Thanks. > > - Steve Madere > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Hobo Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
