Hello All,
Happy New Year in Advance, In this post of mine, I will generate XML with Buildergem. Here is how to do this:
go to terminal, in my case I m generating a new application.
–> rails myapp
go into the directory and type
–> mysql -u root -p
This will open mysql query browser in the terminal itself, create a new schema
–> create schema myapp_development;
type –> exit and get out from terminal, open your –> database.yml and change it according to that.
Now, generate a model Address by this:
–> ruby script/generate model Address
now open your addresses.rb from db/migrate folder and add following lines
–> t.string :name
t.string :city
One thing to be noted here, I m using acts_as_authenticated plugin, so I have added user_id also in that, so that It will be easy for me to generate XML for the current_user i.e the logged in user.
run –> rake db:migrate
if you have builder gem installed open up environment.rb file from config folder and add
–> require ‘builder’
after the end the ‘end’ line.
If you don’t have builder, you can easily install it by typing
–> sudo gem install builder
I think you guys are able to generate rhtml pages of it, now let’s see the controller action:
–> def new
@address = Address.new
end
from here my action goes to generate, see how gen_xml will store data.
–> def generate
@address = Address.new(params[:address])
@address.user_id = current_user.id
if @address.save
redirect_to :action => ‘gen_xml’
end
end
values of address are saved, let’s see our new action i.e gen_xml
–> def gen_xml
@xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new
@addresses = Address.find(:all, :conditions => [“user_id = ?”, current_user.id])
render :layout => false
end
Here Builder is your gem and it will generate XmlMarkup, here I m giving render :layout => false, coz I want to display generated XML without any CSS. Now your next step will be to create a file in your controller name gen_xml.rxml and add the below code:
–> xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>”1.0″
xml.declare! :DOCTYPE, :html, :PUBLIC, “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”, “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”
xml.addresses{
for address in @addresses
xml.address do
xml.name(address.name)
xml.city(address.city)
end
end
}
that’s it you are done, below is the screenshot of what I have done:
If you find any problem or if you have done it successfully, please leave a comment. It will give boost up my confidence level.
Thanks
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Hi Puneet,
Thanks a lot its working great 🙂
for some reason I cannot view gen_xml.rxml it give me an error.
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://localhost:3000/catalog/gen_xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:
but I’m not sure why can you help?
Hi Kenneth,
I’ve got this same error which you are getting do one thing and let me know..
this is your line 1:
xml.instruct!
I think you are giving ‘@’ symbol, so avoid that and try this with simple
xml.instruct
It should work
Let me know if it works..
Cheers
Puneet Pandey
Hi Puneet,
Thanks a lot … it’s working very nice..
Any idea on how to deal with tags such as this: ?
you can use Regular expression to escape such characters
I need know how to create a xml document in a action in rails. This document is for send via post to payment_site
Thanks
you can get some help with this syntax:
respond_to do |format|
format.html #some action
format.xml #this will create your xml document, access it with http://localhost:3000/users/new.xml ( an example )
end
Thanks
Puneet
Hi puneet,
You did a great article.
I am new to the ruby rails world ,and it is not that easy in the beginning specially when you come from the java world but it is getting interesting now.
I followed a jqgrid with ruby rails tutorial http://www.2dconcept.com/jquery-grid-rails-plugin and I am a kind of stuck . I successfully add, edit data in the grid table but I can’t generate the xml file.
I want to do the following:
1. I have an xml file and I want to edit this xml file from the webinterface using ruby rails
2.Then after generate the edited xml file
I need your advise.
Thanks
Hi Santa,
I have also used Jqgrid plugin extensively. But the feature you’re trying to implement is something new to me (but I believe that is possible). I would say learn the docs, meanwhile, If I get a chance/time to work on it, I will surely let you know.
Best Regards
Puneet
Nice bit, But could you guide me on to how to create an xml file out of rails.
Cheers
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