On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Paul wrote: > >> I've got a web service which outputs XML. I'm generating it very >> conveniently by creating a file in the view named index.xml.builder. >> That all works great, almost. >> >> I can write that file very simply and cleanly like this: >> >> xml.instruct! >> xml.search do >> xml.total @results[:total] >> end >> >> That's really maintainable, but the output contains lots of extra >> spaces and newlines that muck it up. I can get rid of all the spaces >> by adding this line to the top of each xml.builder file: >> >> xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new >> >> But that takes out ALL the spaces and newlines, so the entire output >> is on one line. What I want is something in the middle. Through >> experimentation, I've explicitly added newlines and spaces where I >> want them, but suddenly the file is no longer as easily maintainable: >> >> xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new >> xml.instruct! >> xml.text!("\n") >> xml.search do >> xml.text!("\n ") >> xml.total @results[:total] >> end >> >> Does anyone know of a cleaner approach where I get the maintainability >> of the top example with the output of the bottom example? > > Couldn't you run the output through pp? > > Walter
Maybe if I knew how. I'm not sure how to insert pp after the view template. My controllers look like this: respond_to do |format| format.html format.xml end And I don't understand the magic enough to know how to put pp in there. Also, I was looking at the documentation for pp and it's not clear what it will do with a string in xml format. If I could solve the first problem I'll experiment with it. -- 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.
