Rails actions and jbuilder, why they have to be as difficult?

Question

Rails drive me crazy. I'm trying to respond to with an action with JSON. My goal is to let be the JSON the only format for a response to a URL.

Let's see some code.

The Model is a Devise user, with some added field.
The Controller is my UsersController that has this action

    # /app/controllers/users_controller.rb
    def static
        render json: current_user
    end

I got also this jbuilder view

    # /app/views/users/static.json.jbuilder
    json.content format_content(@user.content)
    json.author do
        json.name @user.name
        json.email_address @user.email
    end
    if current_user.admin?
        json.someValue "foo"
    end

this View doesn't do some interesting stuff, but It's just a try. Anyway I'll never get the static.json.jbuildercontent. I always get all Devise user's content as a JSON.

Am I doing something wrong? (or better: where I done the epic fail?)

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '15 at 21:39

Anyway found the solution:

    # /config/route.rb
    get 'my-static-json' => 'mycontroller#static', defaults: {format: :json}

    # /app/controllers/mycontrollers_controller.rb
    def my-static-json
    end

    # /app/views/mycontrollers/my-static-json.json.jbuolder
    json.content "some static content"

this is only an example but gives have all the information that I needed

Rails actions and jbuilder, why they have to be as difficult?

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