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Did you have any luck with this, Oliver?

I've encountered exactly the same problem. Should we reported this as
a bug?

On Mar 7, 12:08 pm, olivernn <oliver.nightinga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <jul...@coretech.net.au> 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
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> > On 07/03/2011, at 12:18 AM, Adam Solove <asol...@gmail.com> 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 <marcofog...@gmail.com> 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 <oliver.nightinga...@gmail.com> 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
>
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