January 25, 2010
This is a standard Rails code. I am using Rails 2.3.5 .
class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @users = User.all
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.js  { render :json => @users }
    end
  end
end
Accidentally in one of my controllers the order of formats got reversed. The altered code looks like this.
class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @users = User.all
    respond_to do |format|
      format.js  { render :json => @users }
      format.html
    end
  end
end
I thought order of format declaration does not matter. I was wrong.
> curl -I http://localhost:3000/users
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:32:16 GMT
ETag: "d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce"
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=utf-8
X-Runtime: 62
Content-Length: 2
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Notice the Content-Type of in the response header is <strong>text/javascript</strong> in stead of <strong>text/html</strong> .
Well I guess the order of format matters. I hope it is fixed in Rails 3.
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