help: ActionController::UnknownFormat in FooController#index

[tom]

HI,

i have a couple of 'seo' routes, which are not responding well

eg:

  match  'whatever/in/:seoterm'       , as: 'seo_whatever _in'  , :to => 'foos#index', via: [:get]  , :mode=>{:x=>' whatever ',:y=>1}

 respond_to do |format|

    format.html { 

      }

    format.js {

    }

    format.json {

        render :json =>  JSON::parse({:list => @.... }

    }

   # format.xml  { 

        #render xml: @person.to_xml(include: @company) 

       # render xml: @commutes.to_xml #(include: @company) 

    #  }

  end

--> the only thing  i see is that the brwoser comes as */* , which shouldnt be the problem:

Started GET "/whatever/in/St.%20Peters" for 10.0.1.37 at 2018-03-05 12:09:39 -0500

Processing by FooController#index as

any ideas?

thx

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:13 AM, tom <toma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> i have a couple of 'seo' routes, which are not responding well

What does that mean?

( http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html )

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[tom]

getting 406 due to rails giving me ActionController::UnknownFormat

and i dont know why.

same routes(pattern) in a different controller work just fine. only difference is that the other one only does render, not repsond_to

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[Hassan Schroeder]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:33 AM, tom <toma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> getting 406 due to rails giving me ActionController::UnknownFormat
> and i dont know why.

Maybe because GET "/whatever/in/St.%20Peters" provides no
information about the requested response format?

> same routes(pattern) in a different controller work just fine. only
> difference is that the other one only does render, not repsond_to

I'd think that would be a good clue...

[tom]

so how can i pass this along? why is it not assuming html?

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[Hassan Schroeder]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:59 AM, tom <toma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so how can i pass this along? why is it not assuming html?

Because computers don't make assumptions? 😀

Why are you telling it to respond differently depending on the format
and then *not providing a format*??

[tom]

, :defaults => { :format => 'html' } 

fixed it

thank you

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[Hassan Schroeder]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:27 AM, tom <toma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> , :defaults => { :format => 'html' }
> fixed it

Awesome!

[Rob Biedenharn]

> Started GET "/whatever/in/St.%20Peters" for 10.0.1.37 at 2018-03-05 12:09:39 -0500

> Processing by FooController#index as

You really should have added one more line from the log here.

It was very likely looking for a :format => '%20Peters" because of the '.' in the URL path.

Look at the output from `rails routes` to see the various ways that you might be routing to foos#index

Another way to fix this tends to "break" having multiple formats. You can add:

> eg:

>   match  'whatever/in/:seoterm'       , as: 'seo_whatever _in'  , :to => 'foos#index', via: [:get]  , :mode=>{:x=>' whatever ',:y=>1}

, constraints: { seoterm: /.+/ }

so that :seoterm slurps all the remaining characters of the URL. This breaks the "implicit" (.:format) that gets added because the constraint will match the '.' and everything after it leaving nothing to match the "optional" format.

-Rob

[tom]

you are correct. the space and or the period was the problem here.

ill try out different solutions now

thx all!

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