Methods for limiting the Rails render format to html

Question

I have a Rails 2.1.2 site that only has html templates e.g. jobs.html.erb, so when I request a restful resource:

www.mysite.com/jobs/1

Answer 1

I was getting non-sensical requests for image format on HTML files, triggerring a 500 with MissingTemplate. I edicted the following at the end of my action:

def show
  # [...]
  respond_to :html
end

And now instead of getting error reports, we emit a 406 to that mischievious requester.