Question

ok, rails 3 new developer here.

I want my jquery to be able to get a json object from the rails 3 application for projects. Here is my controller.

def yourprojects
  @projects = Projects.all(current_user)

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # index.html.erb
    format.json  { render :json => @projects }
  end
end

I added the format.json line… in jquery i have:

$.ajax({url: '/projects/yourprojects', dataType: 'json'});

So that should work i thought. Instead the server is returning: “Template is missing” “Missing template ,,,, with {:locale=>[:en, :en], :handlers=>[:rjs, :rhtml, :builder, :rxml, :erb], :formats=>[:html]} in view paths”

do you need a template for a jsOn return? shouldn’t the rails 3 app know how to format the json?

Routes File:

resources :projects do
    collection do
        get 'yourprojects'  
    end
end

Answer 1

You can set the Accept: application/json header for real REST, or you can add the format to the URL for quick hackery:

$.ajax({url: '/projects/yourprojects.json', dataType: 'json'});