I agree with you, though I find it amusing when people export things to csv just to run totals. So, it's important to work out just why they want it in csv
Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/random8r Learn: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ New video up now at http://sensei.zenunit.com/ real fastcgi rails deploy process! Check it out now! On 07/03/2011, at 12:18 AM, Adam Solove <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
