Multiple variables for respond_with?

Rails
1

I have the following in a Rails 3.0.5 controller:

respond_to :html, :xml, :json
def index
@open_jobs = Job.incomplete
@open_jobs_count = @open_jobs.count

@late_jobs = Job.past_due
@late_jobs_count = @late_jobs.count

end

However, adding this to the index action doesn’t work:

respond_with @open_jobs, @open_jobs_count, @late_jobs,

@late_jobs_count

I just get a “Template is missing” error. How am I supposed to pass
multipe resources to respond_with?

2

Phil

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <
[email protected]> wrote:

However, adding this to the index action doesn’t work:

respond_with @open_jobs, @open_jobs_count, @late_jobs,
@late_jobs_count

I just get a “Template is missing” error. How am I supposed to pass
multipe resources to respond_with?

“Template is missing” should not be related to the multiple resources
(afaik). Do you have an index template?

I’m curious why you’re using respond_with at all; the instance variables
will all be available in the views without that…

3

On Mar 11, 3:04pm, Phil C. [email protected] wrote:

“Template is missing” should not be related to the multiple resources
(afaik). Do you have an index template?

Yes, I have an index template.

I’m curious why you’re using respond_with at all; the instance variables
will all be available in the views without that…

Because you need format or respond_with to generate xml or json views
dynamically.

4

On Mar 11, 10:55pm, “Todd A. Jacobs” [email protected]
wrote:

However, adding this to the index action doesn’t work:

respond_with @open_jobs, @open_jobs_count, @late_jobs,
@late_jobs_count

I just get a “Template is missing” error. How am I supposed to pass
multipe resources to respond_with?

I don’t think you can - if you do say respond_with @person, @comments
then rails thinks you are talking about nested resources, whereas you
have separate resources
The other problem you have here is that some of the things you are
passing (eg those integers) aren’t resources, which may well confuse
things

Personally, my understanding is that respond_with is there to deal
with the really common case, if you have something more exotic there’s
nothing wrong with falling back to some more traditional respond_to
stuff

Fred