Question

I’m trying to render an event as ics and vcs. I have both builders setup

show.ics.erb
show.vcs.erb

But I’m not sure how to setup the view to respond accordingly. I’ve tried:

respond_to do |format|
  format.html { render :layout => "open_dashboard" }
  format.ics { }
  format.vcs { }
end

But that doesn’t work. The log has:

Started GET "/events/1.vcal" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-07-27 11:47:36 -0500
  Processing by EventsController#show as 
  Parameters: {"id"=>"1"}
  Consultation Load (0.9ms)  SELECT "event".* FROM "events" WHERE "events"."id" = 1 LIMIT 1
  User Load (34.3ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 1 LIMIT 1
Rendered events/show.html.erb within layouts/open_dashboard (153.8ms)
Completed 406 Not Acceptable in 237ms (Views: 124.5ms | ActiveRecord: 35.2ms)

So how do I get it to render the right view?

Answer 1

Did you remember to register your custom mime types in config/initializers/mime_types.rb?

Something like Mime::Type.register "text/calendar", :ics might do the trick for .ics.