I'd like to strongly disagree. While csv is not a great way to send objects back and forth, it is a fantastic way to give reports to users, since they can play around with them in Excel.
On Mar 5, 9:03 am, marco <[email protected]> wrote: > All right, but, before, why would you do that? I think if you really > need to use csv (eg. some legacy system), you would rather want to > read from the csv file, turn it into object and serialize it with > JSON. In the other end you'd do the opposit. I don't think csv is a > good format to respond with, just a persistency format, very limited > by the way. > > On Mar 4, 1:22 pm, olivernn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > In my controller I have an instance of a custom report class, the > > instance responds to to_csv, which returns a csv string. I was hoping > > to be able to use respond_with, in the same way I would if I wanted a > > json representation of this object. Instead I see an error because > > Rails is expecting there to be a template. > > > ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template admin/reports/trips with > > {:formats=>[:csv], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :rjs, :rhtml, :rxml], > > :locale=>[:en, :en]} > > in view paths > > > Is this the correct behaviour, I had a brief look through the rails > > responder code and it looked to me like it should first try and render > > a template, then if it can't find one try calling to_#{format}. > > > A sample of my code is in this gisthttps://gist.github.com/854903 -- 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.
