I'm on Rails 2.3.3, and I need to make a link that sends a post request.
I have one that looks like this:
= link_to('Resend Email',
{:controller => 'account', :action => 'resend_confirm_email'},
{:method => :post} )
Which makes the appropriate JavaScript behavior on the link:
<a href="/account/resend_confirm_email"
onclick="var f = document.createElement('form');
f.style.display = 'none';
this.parentNode.appendChild(f);
f.method = 'POST';
f.action = this.href;
var s = document.createElement('input');
s.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
s.setAttribute('name', 'authenticity_token');
s.setAttribute('value', 'EL9GYgLL6kdT/eIAzBritmB2OVZEXGRytPv3lcCdGhs=');
f.appendChild(s);
f.submit();
return false;">Resend Email</a>'
My controller action is working, and set to render nothing:
respond_to do |format|
format.all { render :nothing => true, :status => 200 }
end
But when I click the link, my browser downloads an empty text file named "resend_confirm_email."
What gives?
Since Rails 4, head
is now preferred over render :nothing
.1
head :ok, content_type: "text/html"
# or (equivalent)
head 200, content_type: "text/html"
is preferred over
render nothing: true, status: :ok, content_type: "text/html"
# or (equivalent)
render nothing: true, status: 200, content_type: "text/html"
They are technically the same. If you look at the response for either using cURL, you will see:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 05:25:00 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Runtime: 0.014297
Set-Cookie: _blog_session=...snip...; path=/; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: no-cache
However, calling head
provides a more obvious alternative to calling render :nothing
because it's now explicit that you're only generating HTTP headers.