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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition
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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition

by Jose Valim
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 31m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Understanding Responders

To understand the concepts behind responders, we must understand the three variables that affect how controllers respond: request type, HTTP verb, and resource status.

Navigational and API Requests

A controller the scaffold generator creates responds to two formats by default: HTML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). The scaffold generator uses these two formats because they represent two types of requests: navigational and API. The former is handled by a browser and holds formats like HTML and MOBILE, whereas the latter is used by machines and represents formats like XML and JSON.

 
def​ index
 
@users = User.all
 
respond_to ​do​ |format|
 
format.html ​# index.html.erb
 
format.json { render json: @users }
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