Question

I was wondering how to modify the headers content-type to text/xml in ruby on rails. I want to do this because an android app i’m developing retrieves data by parsing xml from a remote link. The server retrieves the data and outputs it as xml. So I just need to change the content-type so the app can parse the data properly.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

From Rails guides:

By default, Rails will serve the results of a rendering operation with
the MIME content-type of text/html (or application/json if you use the
:json option, or application/xml for the :xml option.). There are
times when you might like to change this, and you can do so by setting
the :content_type option:

render :file => filename, :content_type => ‘application/rss’