#1771 render :xml and render :nothing with layouts - Ruby on Rails

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#1771 ✓resolved

render :xml and render :nothing with layouts

Reported by Aaron Gibralter | January 16th, 2009 @ 08:35 AM | in 2.x

Would it make sense for this to work:


render :xml => @ar_model, :layout => true
# or
render :nothing => true, :layout => true

Currently, the workarounds are:


render :inline => @ar_model.to_xml, :layout => true
# or
render :text => '', :layout => true

Why not allow for :xml to take a layout since Rails supports builder layouts anyway? As for :nothing, it seems like head :ok covers the rendering of nothing but headers... render :nothing should be "nothing" for the action's template...

Thoughts?

Comments and changes to this ticket

Ryan Bigg April 10th, 2010 @ 10:55 AM
Given the lack of discussion this ticket I would suggest this is a wont-fix.
Ryan Bigg April 10th, 2010 @ 10:55 AM
- Assigned user set to “Mikel Lindsaar”
José Valim April 10th, 2010 @ 12:16 PM
- State changed from “new” to “resolved”
- Assigned user changed from “Mikel Lindsaar” to “José Valim”
Both were fixed in Rails 3. In fact, in Rails 3 render :text => "" is preferred then render :nothing => true.

About the xml case, it won't accept a layout due to exempt_from_layout config. If you remove it, it should work.
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Aaron Gibralter April 12th, 2010 @ 10:55 PM
exempt_from_layout is not in Rails 3, right?

Also, will render :xml => @user, :layout => 'default' and render :json => @user, :layout => 'default' work in Rails 3?
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Aaron Gibralter April 12th, 2010 @ 10:56 PM
exempt_from_layout is not in Rails 3, right?

Also, will render :xml => @user, :layout => 'default' and render :json => @user, :layout => 'default' work in Rails 3?
José Valim April 12th, 2010 @ 11:10 PM
In Rails 3.0, if you have a xml layout, it will be automatically picked.