Question

I am generating json using rabl. It is a bit disturbing and probably not the right way to set for json rending that it has no layout.. It naturally does not have and definitely not a HTML based one.

How can I make rails not adding layout for a json rendering? Or more generally, how to set a global strategy for layouting MIME types?

Answer 1

I haven’t checked that but I think it will work:

class ApplicationController < BaseController
  layout :mime_layout

  def mime_layout
    case params[:format]
    when "json"
      false
    ....
    else
      "application"
    end
  end
end