rabl

How to add parent attributes inside its children in rabl template? To do something like this: some_root_attr: { attr_a: 'rgtr', parent: [ { attr_1: 'asd', child: { attr_3: 6, attr_from_parent_array_member: 'cvb' } }, { attr_1: 'ert', child: { attr_3: 9, attr_from_parent_array_member: 'erty' } }, ... ] } How to get parent array member inside parent array member's child? object @obj attributes :attr_a child :parents do attributes :attr_1 parent = root_object.dup child :child do attributes :attr_3 node(:attr_from_parent_array_member) { parent.attr_from_parent_array_member } end end NB haven't

I am using Jbuilder (and I also tried to use Rabl) to render json. When I try to render the jbuilder template in my application it renders the template within the layouts/application file and returns HTML as JSON (see line 'within layouts/application'): Rides controller on Github Started GET "/random_photo.json" Processing by RidesController#random_photo as JSON >> Rendered rides/random_photo.json.jbuilder within layouts/application (0.3ms) Rendered shared/_banners_in_corners.haml (3.0ms) Rendered shared/_sign_in_and_out.haml (2.0ms) Rendered layouts/_navigation.haml (7.3ms) Completed 200 OK

I have a RABL template as shown below object @user attributes :name child :contacts do # does not work if contact.is_foo? attributes :a1, :a2 else attributes :a3, :a4 end end How do I access the Contact object in the child block of the template? I need to perform some conditional logic on the child instance. You can access the current object by declaring the block parameter. object @user attributes :name child :contacts do |contact| if contact.is_foo? attributes :a1, :a2 else attributes :a3, :a4 end end Old answer I ended up using the root_object method , which returns the data object in a

I'd like a Rails controller (all of them, actually, it's an API) to render JSON always always. I don't want Rails to return "route not found", or try and fail to find an HTML template, or return 406. I just want it to automatically and always render JSON, e.g. from a RABL or JBuilder view. Is this possible? Related questions seem to have answers that have the aforementioned downsides. You can add a before_filter in your controller to set the request format to json : # app/controllers/foos_controller.rb before_action :set_default_response_format protected def set_default_response_format request