Rails: Routing to a different controller based on request format
- by Jimmy Cuadra
I'm writing an app where I want all requests for HTML to be handled by the same controller action. I have some other routes that are JSON-specific. Here's what my routes look like:
Blog::Application.routes.draw do
constraints format: :json do
resources :posts
end
match "(*path)" => "web#index"
end
The problem is that constraints is being interpreted as "this route only works with the specified format" rather than "skip this route and try the next one if the request is not in the specified format."
In other words, navigating to /posts in the browser gives me a 406 Not Acceptable because the URL is constrained to the JSON format. Instead, I want it to fall through to web#index if the request is for HTML, and hit the resourceful route if the request is for JSON. How can this be achieved?
(Using Rails 3.2.9.)
