Rails - How to add a format to an url helper?

Question

how can I make an URL helper create an URL in a given request/response format?

For example, in my test I have the following:

get(activity_url(activity))

This will returns me an HTML on the @response object. I'm looking to have the same behavior of the following:

get({controller: 'activities', action: 'show', id: activity.id, format: 'js'})

but without all this wording. Is it possible?

Marek Takac · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-22T21:18:12.490

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You should be able to do something like this:

some_resource_path(format: :json)

or

some_resource_url(format: :xml)

edited May 22 '13 at 21:18

answered May 22 '13 at 20:46

Marek Takac

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Thanks, it works, as the last parameter. Do you know where can I find the docs for this url helpers? – fotanus May 22 '13 at 20:56
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a shortened syntax 'some_resource_path :json' works too – vincentp Oct 13 '14 at 09:54

Torben Jacobsen · Answer 2 · 2015-04-22T17:43:21.433

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I'm fairly new to Rails/Ruby, so I'm not sure why, but in my Rails 3.2 application the syntax must be eg:

some_resource_path(:format => :json)

edited Apr 22 '15 at 17:43

answered Dec 06 '14 at 20:39

Torben Jacobsen

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did you mean `:format => :json`? It is the same than `format: :json`, but with some extra syntax sugar. However, `format: => :json` seems like a syntax error. – fotanus Dec 07 '14 at 02:53

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