Jbuilder not working with gem rails-api

Question

I'am trying rails-api gem with jbuilder and i can't seem to make it work

Here is a sample of my rails-api controller / jbuilder views

Gemfile

gem 'jbuilder'

Controller app/controller/users_controller.rb

 def show
  @user = User.find_by(id: params[:id])
 end

View app/views/users/show.json.builder

json.content format_content(@user.id)

According to the Jbuilder documentation this should work fine but still nothing is returned.

Thanks for the help!

Since i found no proper answer on that issue i just left rails-api and built my own api from a brand new rails app. All is working great now. — C404, Sep 24 '14 at 23:47

Vees · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-28T03:53:37.373

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I know that the original issue had probably been resolved. Nevertheless I had the same issue and finally found an answer.

Since rails-api is stripped down version of rails some functionalities are missing (in this case implicit rendaring of views) and we need to add them explicitly.

Simplest solution is to add ActionController::ImplicitRender to ApplicationController

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::API
  include ActionController::ImplicitRender
end

edited Dec 28 '14 at 03:53

answered Nov 10 '14 at 16:51

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In Rails 5 you'll probably also need to add `include ActionView::Layouts` – Ryenski Mar 16 '16 at 21:21
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Also, make sure to uncomment " gem 'jbuilder' " in Gemfile! Wasted a few hours finding this. :( – Swaathi Kakarla Jun 06 '18 at 09:55

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '14 at 09:24

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It seems that you misnamed your jbuilder view.
It should be app/views/users/show.json.jbuilder instead of app/views/users/show.json.builder.

answered Sep 28 '14 at 09:24

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