I appreciate the discussion on the pros and cons of exporting to csv, however my question was more to do with what the expected behaviour of respond_with is when the request format is csv.
I would have thought that since the object I am passing to respond_with has a to_csv method that it wouldn't also need a template to return a response, much like a json, xml or yaml request. Is this not the expected behaviour? Maybe a bug in rails, or just something that could do with some more documentation? >From ActionController::Responder # When a request comes in, for example for an XML response, three steps happen: # # 1) the responder searches for a template at people/index.xml; # # 2) if the template is not available, it will invoke <code>#to_xml</code> on the given resource; # # 3) if the responder does not <code>respond_to :to_xml</code>, call <code>#to_format</code> on it. On Mar 7, 1:43 am, Julian Leviston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 athttp://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 > > athttp://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.
