Custom respond_to - activescaffold/active_scaffold GitHub Wiki

By default active scaffold responds to the html, json, js, xml, and yaml mime types. If you want to override one of these responses you can override the <action>_respond_to_<format> method in the controller:

def show_respond_to_html
  render :action => :show, :layout => 'main'
end

def list_respond_to_xml
     render :xml => @records.to_xml(:except => [:full_definition, :cradle_item_type_id], :include => [:cradle_item_type]) 
end

If you need to add a custom mime type you can do it in one of two ways.

# to add a mime type to all actions
active_scaffold do |config|
  config.formats << :pdf
end

# to add it to only one action
active_scaffold do |config|
  config.show.formats << :pdf
end

So now your controller or action will respond to that format. Now you need to hook into the response type for that action.

def show_respond_to_pdf
  #render whatever you want here
end

List action will load records in @records variable, other actions will load the record in @record variable

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