Question

one of our controller methods is invoked by a remote system, and it returns only xml.

in our foo controller we have

  def return_some_data
    @thename = "JOHN DOE" 
      respond_to do |format|
        format.xml
      end
  end

in our views/foo/return_some_data.xml we have

<Response>
  <Name>#{@thename}</Name>  << that doesnt work
</Response>

I thought, like haml views, that #{@thename} would be substituted, but it’s not.

How do I ‘insert’ variable data into this XML view?

Answer 1

You need to provide the file with an extension that makes it being processed by one of the engines. I imagine you could just rename the return_some_data.xml to return_some_data.xml.erb to have it processed by the standard engine. You will then have to use a slightly different syntax for you embedded code:

<Response>
  <Name><%= @thename%></Name> 
</Response>