I'll give that a go.  I didn't know you could do .json?

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Darcy Laycock <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Try using unless request.format.json?
>
> On Monday, 21 February 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mark Mansour wrote:
>
> In my API I want to reject non JSON calls so I have
>
> before_filter :reject_non_json_requests
>
>  def reject_non_json_requests
>
>
>     render :status => :unsupported_media_type,
>
>
>            :text => "" if request.content_type != 
> ActiveResource::Formats["json"].mime_type && params[:format] != "json")
>
>
>  end
>
>
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Paul Annesley <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Rails respects the Accept header, but the :format URL parameter takes
> precedence.
> Best of both worlds.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > does it? Sorry, haven't done any rails for a long time - I thought t was
> the
> > other way round.
> > - K
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Mike Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> One trick I've seen is people serving up application/json if the Accept
> >>> header includes it, but otherwise, providing a html wrapper that
> >>> pretty-formats the json.  Can't remember where I've seen that, but it
> seemed
> >>> a clever way to make a json UI a bit more user-friendly for dumb users.
> >>
> >> JSON is no place for 'dumb users'.
> >>>
> >>> Incidentally, what are people's thoughts on serving json based on the
> URL
> >>> (i.e. ending in ".json") vs based on the Accept header (i.e. the Rails
> way)?
> >>
> >> I think accepting both is the most flexible.
> >> Rails supports '.json'. Did you mean the other way
> >> round? http://www.goodfordogs.org/latest/2.json
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