RABL (Ruby API Builder Language) is a Ruby templating system for generating XML and JSON.
RABL (Ruby API Builder Language) is a Ruby templating system for generating XML and JSON.
Questions tagged [rabl]
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Rails 4 - How to render JSON regardless of requested format?
I'd like a Rails controller (all of them, actually, it's an API) to render JSON always always.
I don't want Rails to return "route not found", or try and fail to find an HTML template, or return 406. I just want it to automatically and always render…
Zach
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Removing child root nodes in RABL
I'm trying to render a pretty simple data structure using RABL, but I can't figure out how to remove the child root nodes properly. Here are my two templates.
First, the collection index template.
collection @groups, :object_root =>…
BBonifield
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How to remove html redirection in devise authenticate_user
I use the devise's authenticate_user! method in a controller. This is working fine when the auth_token provided in the request is the correct one but if the authentication fails, I end up with:
curl -XGET…
Luc
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Rendering a simple Ruby hash with RABL
I have a ruby hash that I'd like to render using RABL. The hash looks something like this:
@my_hash = {
:c => {
:d => "e"
}
}
I'm trying to render this with some RABL code:
object @my_hash => :some_object
attributes :d
node(:c) {…
SundayMonday
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How to paginate Rabl's collections
I have this template:
# app/views/posts/index.rabl
collection @posts => :posts
attributes :id, :title, :subject
child(:user) { attributes :full_name }
node(:read) { |post| post.read_by?(@user) }
Witch returns:
{
"posts": [
{
…
Zag zag..
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How to inspect errors in rable view files
I am using rabl with rails 3.2 application, I am getting errors in rabl view files but it's not pointing exact error line where error occured. So now I want debug view code for the line causes error, something like puts statement.
ratnakar
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Rabl, Jbuilder or manual json build for api?
To build api for a large scale application, which method is better interms of performance, should i use Rabl, Jbuilder or build json objects manually?I am building api /endpoints for mobile apps.
katie
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how to render a rabl view in a rake task?
I'm trying to render a rabl view to string in a rails 3.2 rake task. I'm rendering it to string in order to send some JSON through Pusher from a background task. I've looked at various render_to_string from rake task answers but none of them seem to…
Marc
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How to " order by id " JSON with Rabl
I want json output order by id(child id)
Can I solve this problem ?
this is some code in my project
show.json.rabl (I used Rabl)
object @book
attributes :id , :name
child :questions do
attributes :id , :name
end
books_controller.rb
def show
…
Eak Zangkaew
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RABL: JSON objects without root key
I have this rabl template:
object @photo
attributes :id
child :comments do
attributes :id, :body
end
Which gives me this JSON response:
{
photo: {
id: 1,
comments: [
{
comment: {
id: 1,
body: 'some…
Calvin
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Is it possible to do a fragment caching in a rabl view?
I'm trying to do something like this:
cache "api/v1/cars_index/#{I18n.locale}/car/#{car.cache_key}" do
attributes :id, :brand, :model_name, :fuel, :km, :year, :price
node(:color) { |car| car.color.present? ? car.color : '' }
end
Niels Kristian
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Rabl Multi-model collection
I am using RABL to output a Sunspot/SOLR result set and the search results object is composed of multiple model types. Currently within the rabl view I have:
object false
child @search.results => :results do
attribute :id, :resource, :upccode
…
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wrong child root name in rabl and can't set child root name
I have to following rabl code to generate some JSON data.
object @event
attributes :id, :EID, :name, :address, :description, :latitude, :longitude, :time, :created_at
node(:rsvp_count) { |event| event.rsvp_users.count }
node(:check_in_count) {…
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Rabl.render: how to use view helper methods?
I'm using Rabl to generate XML output in a rake task:
xml = Rabl.render @listings, 'feeds/listings', :format => :xml
# do stuff with xml
However, I need to use multiple helper methods in the rabl view file referenced, and I keep getting a…
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undefined method `scan' for {"tooth"=>""}:Hash
I upgraded to rails4 from 3.2.2 and i now get this undefined method from my rabl template that id didn't get before the upgrade.
the "tooth" paramater on procedures is a set by a getter/setter method that is stored in the postgres database as a…
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