ActionController is the main controller class in Ruby on Rails.
ActionController is the main controller class in Ruby on Rails.
Questions tagged [actioncontroller]
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Is it possible to stop Rails from rendering views for actions not defined in controllers?
Following this question, I'd like to know if there is a way to override that new rails behaviour. I run into a security issue with a forgotten view, that was suddenly exposed although the action was not defined in my Controller. I think it'd be…
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Receiving AbstractController::DoubleRenderError when using authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic()
I have a working controller action that breaks when I add a call to authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic at the beginning of the block. Here is the non-functioning action code:
def index
authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username,…
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ActionController Mixin
How could I create a mixin for action controller, which does something like:
layout Proc.new { |controller|
if controller.request.xhr?
'minimal'
else
'application'
end
}
(I can't subclass ApplicationController, because I'm using a gem…
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How to retrieve the controller class from within a view/helper in Rails 3?
I know about controller_name returning a string containing the controller's name but how can I retrieve the controller class (or object) from within a helper?
EDIT: The solution should also work when the controller is namespaced (eg.…
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uninitialized constant ActionController::Dispatcher::MiddlewareStack
I installed some new gems for testing and ran into an uninitialized constant ActionController::Dispatcher::MiddlewareStack error. I followed the instructions on the gem rdocs-specified the gem dependency in my environment.rb file and then ran rake…
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NameError for ActionMailer within ActionController
I'm on Rails 3.0, and I pretty much followed the steps on the API to define a mailer by doing
rails generate mailer Notifier
Within my controller, I call Notifier.mytemplate(...)
When I go to the page, I see an error:
uninitialized constant…
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Rendering Rails partial view (with issues reading the Rails API)
I have a jQuery post submitting a form to a controller create action, which works great. If the save was successful I would like the create action to return a different form so the success callback will insert this form. Is this possible?
Here's my…
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ActionController::RoutingError: No route matches [POST]
require 'test_helper'
class MyTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
test "view posts from login page" do
visit("/logins/new")
find_field('Username').set('abode')
find_field('Password').set('efghi')
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NameError uninitialized constant in Jruy/Rails 3
I'm upgrading a project to Rails 3.1 and Jruby 1.6.4 from rails 2.6 I followed the Rails Handbook by Jeremy.
Now I'm getting some errors while booting the server.
NameError in Adm::AuthController#login
uninitialized constant…
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Rails 7 ActionController::UnknownFormat in CommentsController#create respond_to
I have a comments controller that i want to load a partial "create.js.erb"
class CommentsController < ApplicationController
skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token
def create
@comment = Comment.new(comment_params)
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testing a that Rails controller chooses a layout without rendering the layout
i'd like to stub out render and i'd like to test that a certain layout is chosen
bonus catch: in the test env, that layout file will not exist
is there a clever way to detect if the controller has selected a layout without rendering, and without…
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How to cache Rails API actions
What is the best and correct approach to do caching for actions?
Am I forced to ActionController::Base?
Is there another way (keeping ActionController::API present)?
Do I have to push caching down to Model layer?
I saw that Rails 6 (maybe prior)…
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No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"products"}, missing required keys: [:id]
I have a rSpec Controller test which fails
the index route will have an :id which does not exist in an index route.
I've clean routes:
resources :products
This is the controller,
class ProductsController < ApplicationController
before_action…
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Why isn't the args parameter used in ActionController::Instrumentation::render?
I am new to Ruby and to Rails, and am trying to understand fully what I'm reading.
I am looking at some of the Rails source code, in this case action_controller/metal/instrumentation.rb.
def render(*args)
render_output = nil
self.view_runtime =…
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Rails: How to step-by-step debug a request
I have an ajax request that is causing problems in my Rails 3.0.9 app. I can see the problem in the logs, but I don't have any idea what is triggering it between the ajax call and the render. Here's the log, and the event I don't want with ** beside…
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