Hello All,
I’m trying to figure out how respond_to actually works, especially with
the increased focus on REST.
After I set a MIME type for Excel
Mime::Type.register “application/vnd.ms-excel”, :xls
In my index action’s respond_to block
I have format.xls {
@parts = Part.find(:all)
headers[‘Content-Type’] = “application/vnd.ms-excel”
headers[‘Content-Disposition’] = “attachment;
filename=“parts-inventory-#{Time.now.strftime(”%m-%d-%Y”)}.xls""
headers[‘Cache-Control’] = ‘’
render( :action=>“inbound.rxml”, :layout => false)
}
but how do i actually trigger the action to return the spreadsheet
instead of the HTML page?
when i try index.xls it tries to render the show function.
If anyone can explain this that would be much appreciated.
Binh