For anyone else who has this issue the solution was simple. instead of render :show_page
I used render 'show_page.html' Don't think. Just render the HTML! In 99% of my code I let rails decide but there are a few places it made sense for me to do this. Of course, if a search engine asks sends "Accept: image/jpg" they will get HTML from me. I tried this on some other sites and they returned html even if an image was requested so I am no worse than them :-) On Jan 3, 8:59 am, Tony Primerano <[email protected]> wrote: > It should be noted that while adding this fixed my test cases it > breaks the application when viewed from a browser. :-\ > > I guess this is just the rails way. Unless a specific accept header > is sent rails does not know what to return. > > AFAIK there is no way to specify a default handler. It seems safe to > assume that erb should be used when the Accept header doesn't map to a > specific mime-type. Is there a way to make this happen or is there a > reason this shouldn't be done? > > On Dec 31 2010, 6:21 pm, TonyPrimerano<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > well. adding > > > Mime::Type.register "text/*", :html > > > to config/initializers/mime_types.rb works but it gives a warning on > > startup > > > actionpack-3.0.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:98: warning: > > already initialized constant HTML > > > Seems like rails doesn't want us to extend the definition of an HTML > > mime type. Probably for the better, any suggestions. I could ping > > thunderstone and have them fix their crawler but I'm wondering if > > there is a better way Rails an handle this case. > > > On Dec 31, 4:47 pm, TonyPrimerano<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The thunderstone crawler (http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/ > > > websearch/about.html) sends the folliowing HTTP accept header when > > > requesting pages > > > > Accept:text/*, application/javascript, application/x-javascript > > > > This results in a "Missing template" exception > > > >text/* isvalid. How do I tell my rails app to treat this as rhtml by > > > default instead of returning a 500? > > > > Missing template [controller]/[method] with > > > {:handlers=>[:erb, :rjs, :builder, :rhtml, :rxml], :formats=>[:"text/> > > > > *", :js], :locale=>[:en, :en]} > > > > I'll post a response if I figure it out > > > TonyPrimerano > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
