A set of responders modules to dry up your Rails app.
Add the responders gem to your Gemfile:
gem "responders"
Update your bundle and run the install generator:
$ bundle install
$ rails g responders:install
If you are including this gem to support backwards compatibility for responders in previous releases of Rails, you only need to include the gem and bundle.
$ bundle install
Sets the flash based on the controller action and resource status.
For instance, if you do: respond_with(@post) on a POST request and the resource @post
does not contain errors, it will automatically set the flash message to
"Post was successfully created" as long as you configure your I18n file:
flash:
actions:
create:
notice: "%{resource_name} was successfully created."
update:
notice: "%{resource_name} was successfully updated."
destroy:
notice: "%{resource_name} was successfully destroyed."
alert: "%{resource_name} could not be destroyed."In case the resource contains errors, you should use the failure key on I18n. This is
useful to dry up flash messages from your controllers. Note: by default alerts for update
and destroy actions are commented in generated I18n file. If you need a specific message
for a controller, let's say, for PostsController, you can also do:
flash:
posts:
create:
notice: "Your post was created and will be published soon"This responder is activated in all non get requests. By default it will use the keys
:notice and :alert, but they can be changed in your application:
config.responders.flash_keys = [ :success, :failure ]You can also have embedded HTML. Just create a _html scope.
flash:
actions:
create:
alert_html: "<strong>OH NOES!</strong> You did it wrong!"
posts:
create:
notice_html: "<strong>Yay!</strong> You did it!"See also the namespace_lookup option to search the full hierarchy of possible keys.
Automatically adds Last-Modified headers to API requests. This allows clients to easily query the server if a resource changed and if the client tries to retrieve a resource that has not been modified, it returns not_modified status.
Makes your create and update action redirect to the collection on success.
This responder allows you to use callable objects as the redirect location.
Useful when you want to use the respond_with method with
a custom route that requires persisted objects, but the validation may fail.
Note: this responder is included by default, and doesn't need to be included on the top of your controller (including it will issue a deprecation warning).
class ThingsController < ApplicationController
respond_to :html
def create
@thing = Thing.create(params[:thing])
respond_with @thing, location: -> { thing_path(@thing) }
end
endDealing with namespaced routes
In order for the LocationResponder to find the correct route helper for namespaced routes you need to pass the namespaces to respond_with:
class Api::V1::ThingsController < ApplicationController
respond_to :json
# POST /api/v1/things
def create
@thing = Thing.create(thing_params)
respond_with :api, :v1, @thing
end
endResponders only provides a set of modules and to use them you have to create your own responder. After you run the install command, the following responder will be generated in your application:
# lib/application_responder.rb
class ApplicationResponder < ActionController::Responder
include Responders::FlashResponder
include Responders::HttpCacheResponder
endYour application also needs to be configured to use it:
# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
require "application_responder"
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
self.responder = ApplicationResponder
respond_to :html
endThis gem also includes the controller method responders, which allows you to cherry-pick which
responders you want included in your controller.
class InvitationsController < ApplicationController
responders :flash, :http_cache
endYou can pass in extra interpolation options for the translation by adding an flash_interpolation_options method to your controller:
class InvitationsController < ApplicationController
responders :flash, :http_cache
def create
@invitation = Invitation.create(params[:invitation])
respond_with @invitation
end
private
def flash_interpolation_options
{ resource_name: @invitation.email }
end
endNow you would see the message "[email protected] was successfully created" instead of the default "Invitation was successfully created."
This gem also includes a responders controller generator, so your scaffold can be customized
to use respond_with instead of default respond_to blocks. From 2.1, you need to explicitly opt-in to use this generator by adding the following to your config/application.rb:
config.app_generators.scaffold_controller :responders_controllerResponders don't use valid? to check for errors in models to figure out if
the request was successful or not, and relies on your controllers to call
save or create to trigger the validations.
def create
@widget = Widget.new(widget_params)
# @widget will be a valid record for responders, as we haven't called `save`
# on it, and will always redirect to the `widgets_path`.
respond_with @widget, location: -> { widgets_path }
endResponders will check if the errors object in your model is empty or not. Take
this in consideration when implementing different actions or writing test
assertions on this behavior for your controllers.
def create
@widget = Widget.new(widget_params)
@widget.errors.add(:base, :invalid)
# `respond_with` will render the `new` template again,
# and set the status based on the configured `error_status`.
respond_with @widget
endrespond_with will raise an ActionController::UnknownFormat if the request
MIME type was not configured through the class level respond_to, but the
action will still be executed and any side effects (like creating a new record)
will still occur. To raise the UnknownFormat exception before your action
is invoked you can set the verify_requested_format! method as a before_action
on your controller.
class WidgetsController < ApplicationController
respond_to :json
before_action :verify_requested_format!
# POST /widgets.html won't reach the `create` action.
def create
widget = Widget.create(widget_params)
respond_with widget
end
endBy default, respond_with will respond to errors on HTML & JS requests using the HTTP status code 200 OK,
and perform redirects using the HTTP status code 302 Found, both for backwards compatibility reasons.
You can configure this behavior by setting config.responders.error_status and config.responders.redirect_status to the desired status codes.
config.responders.error_status = :unprocessable_entity
config.responders.redirect_status = :see_otherThese can also be set in your custom ApplicationResponder if you have generated one: (see install instructions)
class ApplicationResponder < ActionController::Responder
self.error_status = :unprocessable_entity
self.redirect_status = :see_other
endNote: the application responder generated for new apps already configures a different set of defaults: 422 Unprocessable Entity for errors, and 303 See Other for redirects. Responders may change the defaults to match these in a future major release.
Hotwire/Turbo expects successful redirects after form submissions to respond with HTTP status 303 See Other, and error responses to be 4xx or 5xx statuses, for example 422 Unprocessable Entity for displaying form validation errors and 500 Internal Server Error for other server errors. Turbo documentation: Redirecting After a Form Submission.
The example configuration showed above matches the statuses that better integrate with Hotwire/Turbo.
Want more examples ? Check out these blog posts:
- Embracing REST with mind, body and soul
- Three reasons to love ActionController::Responder
- My five favorite things about Rails 3
We intend to maintain support for all Ruby / Rails versions that haven't reached end-of-life.
For more information about specific versions please check Ruby and Rails maintenance policies, and our test matrix.
If you discover any bugs or want to drop a line, feel free to create an issue on GitHub.
MIT License. Copyright 2020-2024 Rafael França, Carlos Antônio da Silva. Copyright 2009-2019 Plataformatec.
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