Ruby on Rails ActionController Output JSON instead of HTML
Example
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def index
hashmap_or_array = [{ name: "foo", email: "[email protected]" }]
respond_to do |format|
format.html { render html: "Hello World" }
format.json { render json: hashmap_or_array }
end
end
end
In addition you will need the route:
resources :users, only: [:index]
This will respond in two different ways to requests on /users:
- If you visit
/usersor/users.html, it will show an html page with the contentHello World - If you visit
/users.json, it will display a JSON object containing:
[
{
"name": "foo",
"email": "[email protected]"
}
]
You can omit format.html { render inline: "Hello World" } if you want to make sure that your route will answer only to JSON requests.
