Respond_with with templates and http status when creating an object

Rails
1

Hi.

When you use respond_with in a controller #create method and want to
render
XML the response gets the http status 201 (Created).
But if you use a view to render this XML response_with uses the status
200
(Ok), for example when you use the gem rabl.

I cannot determine if this matter is related to Rails or rabl. If it’s
from
Rails, is there a particular reason for this behavior?

2

Hmm anyone?

3

I was able to perform what I’m talking about in an initializer, maybe it
can
help seeing the big picture:

ActionController::Responder.class_eval do
  def to_format
    if has_errors?
      api_behavior(nil) and return
    end

    controller.response.status = :created if post? && ! has_errors?

    default_render
  rescue ActionView::MissingTemplate => e
    api_behavior(e)
  end
end

Now I understand a lot better Rails view stack.
As for my problem, the culprit is this line in mime_responds.rb:

collector = Collector.new { default_render }

which calls the default view without options (I guess this is a
functionality and not a bug since it’s name is “default_render”).