Ruby on Rails

To reply to myself, don't use the extension "xml.builder". An
addition, the capybara API now uses page.driver.source instead of
page.driver.body to retrieve the XML response. ugh.

On Aug 26, 10:28 am, Chad Albers <calb...@neomantic.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, I upgraded from 3.0.3 to 3.0.10.  I've encountered a
> problem with rendering XML.  Here's the situation.
>
> The app is primarily a non-RESTful API app.  Controller actions should
> respond to requests with an XML response without the need to have
> an .xml at the end of the route request.   For my controller actions I
> have written a builder (action_name.xml.builder) template and a
> builder layout (all_responses.xml.builder).  For all the actions in
> the controller, I set the default layout to "all_responses" using the
> controller layout class method.
>
> Under this scenario, Rails performed as expected in version 3.0.3.
> I could write the following and the correct XML with layout was
> produced.
>
> def action_name
>    @animal = Animal.new
>    render :content_type => "application/xml" and return
> end
>
> Rails would find the builder template under the controllers view
> directory as expected.  It would work as well with the following:
>
> respond_to do |format|
>    format.xml{render :status => 200}
> end
>
> After upgrading to rails 3.0.10.  Rendering is no longer working as
> expected.   Instead, I get the following error:
>
>  Missing template action_name with
> {:locale=>[:eng, :eng], :formats=>[:html], :handlers=>[:rjs, :rhtml, :erb, :rxml, :builder]}
> in view paths "/Users/me/src/app_name/app/
> views" (ActionView::MissingTemplate)
>
> In other words, Rails 3.0.10 no longer can find the template.  It
> instead appears to always be searching for the html template which
> doesn't exist.
>
> As a partial fix, I have to specify literally everything.  For
> example....
>
> def action_name
>     render :template => "controller_name/
> action_name.xml.builder", :status => 200, :layout =>
> 'all_response.xml.builder' and return
> end
>
> But it only partially fixes the problem.   If I go into the debugger,
> when I'm in this action, and I execute manually the render line
> above.  I receive the correct XML response with the XML from the
> all_response.xml.builder layout.   However, the actual response that
> Rails 3.0.10 delivers strips XML produced by the builder layout and
> actually wraps my action_name.xml.builder XML with a HTML doc type and
> the html tags such as html and body.
>
> In other words, despite the fact that I specify manually all the views
> and layout, it insists on producing HTML.
>
> I'm at a lose about what's going on here.  I search the Rails change
> logs and couldn't find anything that seems to affect the way rendering
> works.
>
> If anyone could provide help or advice, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Chad

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