# Respond\_to and format **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-and-format/158338 "2009-01-22T08:39:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raimon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-and-format/158338/1 "2009-01-22T08:39:34Z")
Hi, I’m creating a new format for an iPhone/iPod connections. My problem is that iPhones/iPods always receive the .html pages. If I comment the format.html # index.html.erb then the devices receive the .xml format, and If I coment this one they receive the format.iphone wich is the expected. In the .html pages I add some code to test if the device is really an iPhone or not: \<% if iphone\_user\_agent? # Show message for iPhone users -%\> Using an iPhone? [Use the optimised version](http://iphone.foo.com/). \<%else%\> Welcome iPhone user! \<% end -%\> And when the device is an iPhone/iPod I get the Using an iPhone? message … Of course I’m connecting from an iPhone/iPod or through the iPhone simulator from Xcode. When I use a simple browser from a computer I expect the .html versions, wich I’m receiving as default no matter wich device/browser is connected. What did I miss ? thanks, r. In config/initializers/mime\_types.rb # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file. # Add new mime types for use in respond\_to blocks: # Mime::Type.register “text/richtext”, :rtf Mime::Type.register\_alias “text/html”, :iphone class ScannsController \< ApplicationController around\_filter :login\_required def index ``` @scanns = Scann.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM totals_diaris_avui") @page_title="Scanns of today" respond_to do |format| format.iphone # action.iphone.erb format.html # index.html.erb format.xml { render :xml => @scanns } end ``` end … end ---
**Author:** ![raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raimon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-and-format/158338/2 "2009-01-22T17:14:03Z")
Raimon Fs wrote: > ``` > respond_to do |format| > format.iphone # action.iphone.erb > format.html # index.html.erb > format.xml { render :xml => @scanns } > > ``` It may require someone else to answer this properly however I think you are getting confused about what will actually happen: The iphone will always receive the html pages because the webserver/rails app by default will look for html pages. for example: 1. [http://www.mysite.com/](http://www.mysite.com/) #=\> deafult format.html 2. [http://www.mysite.com/index.xml](http://www.mysite.com/index.xml) #=\> format.xml 3. [http://www.mysite.com/index.iphone](http://www.mysite.com/index.iphone) #=\> format.iphone Perhaps you could change default route to point to index.iphone when you use your subdomain. You’d then need to ensure all your links used the .iphone extension. Unless there is someway to force the default format from html to ‘iphone’? Wouldn’t surprise me if it was possible, however, you’d need to look it up… Cheers Luke ---
**Author:** ![raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raimon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-and-format/158338/3 "2009-01-23T19:42:44Z")
Luke P. wrote: > Raimon Fs wrote: > > > ``` > > respond_to do |format| > > format.iphone # action.iphone.erb > > format.html # index.html.erb > > format.xml { render :xml => @scanns } > > > > ``` > > It may require someone else to answer this properly however I think you > are getting confused about what will actually happen: > > The iphone will always receive the html pages because the > webserver/rails app by default will look for html pages. > > for example: > > 1. [http://www.mysite.com/](http://www.mysite.com/) #=\> deafult format.html > 2. [http://www.mysite.com/index.xml](http://www.mysite.com/index.xml) #=\> format.xml > 3. [http://www.mysite.com/index.iphone](http://www.mysite.com/index.iphone) #=\> format.iphone > > Perhaps you could change default route to point to index.iphone when you > use your subdomain. You’d then need to ensure all your links used the > .iphone extension. > > Unless there is someway to force the default format from html to > ‘iphone’? Wouldn’t surprise me if it was possible, however, you’d need > to look it up… > > Cheers > Luke Hello, Do you mean to always use for example an iphone as an extension ? Then I would to add some special route, don’t ? And in the controller, split the actions: index index\_iphone but this approach forces to have duplicate methods, for example fetching the same data in two different places, I can’t follow the DRY. I know at least I must have differents views … If the respond\_to and format would work, it would be great … anyone know if this is possible ? thanks! r. ---
**Author:** ![raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@raimon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raimon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/respond-to-and-format/158338/4 "2009-01-23T20:33:16Z")
Hello, ok, I solved it with the hard-way … 🙂 I was not setting the format to iphone correctly in the application controller, the iPhone format only was available if the user connects from a subdomain [iphone.mywebpage.com](http://iphone.mywebpage.com) or via a custom parameter, format=iPhone. As I’m developing locally with the 127.0.0.1 I don’t have a quick-way to simulate iphone.127.0.0.1 or something similar, so I change the method and simply if the user connected is from an iPhone/iPod I show their pages directly. I’ll think in a better solution, but as this is for a test purposes, at this moment it’s ok. thanks, r.