Question

I am newbie to rails and currently trying to build a REST api on Rails.I am trying to connect to the rest web service from my android app.
This is the controller code that i am routing the request to.

class SessionsController < ApplicationController

  def create
    user = User.authenticate(params[:userid],
                             params[:password])
    if user.nil?
      message="Invalid Username/Password"
      return message
    else
      sessionId=make_sessionId
      return sessionId
    end
  end

  def destroy
  end
end

I am trying to hit the create action in the SessionController.The problem is that the response i get is the html of the view whereas what i am looking forward to is the ‘message or the ‘sessionId‘ from the controller.I deleted the view files after which i am getting the html with exceptions inside it.

Can someone let me know what i should here to get the response from the controller rather than returning the html inside the view at the client.?

Answer 1

If you have no render in your Controller, then rails will use the view related to the action name. Try “render :text => message” for example. I hope I understood your question correctly.