Ruby on Rails: How do detect if access by JSON?

Question

I got a GET URL that calls a controller method getInfo. It can be called by mydomain.com/getInfo.json?params=BLAHBLAH or mydomain.com/getInfo?params=BLAHBLAH

In the cont

Answer 1

If you need to check if it was an Ajax request you can check for a header[X-Requested-With] using request.xhr?

Example code snippet

if request.xhr?
  # Do the ajax stuff
else
  # Do normal stuff
end