What step am I missing? The view being returned to my iPhone is coming from application.html.erb and index.html.erb
Step 1: In config/initializers/mime_types.rb uncomment the declaration line for the iPhone:
Mime::Type.register_alias "text/html", :iphone
Step 2: Make a copy of app/views/layouts/application.html.erb calling it application.iphone.erb (I like to change the title to something specific to your iPhone so you can see immediately that the correct layout is being used)
<title>My iPhone Tasks</title>
Step 3: Make copies of the necessary view files in your controllers, calling them things like index.iphone.erb
Step 4: Decide whether to stick with the Rails 2 model of respond_to blocks that specifically call out a format of iphone or switch to the more DRY approach that uses the respond_with call. That's what I've done, er tried ;-)
Step 4a: Add to your controller the respond_to block:
class TasksController < ApplicationController
respond_to :html, :iphone
Step 4b: DRY up your methods, such as:
def index
@tasks = Task.all
respond_with (@tasks)
end
Step 5: Restart your server and hit the app from your iPhone.
You have to write a responder for your mobile mime type for respond_with to properly work.
Define the responder in application_controller.rb:
def self.responder
MobileResponder
end
class MobileResponder < ActionController::Responder
def to_format
super
rescue ActionView::MissingTemplate => e
if request.format == "iphone"
navigation_behavior(e)
else
raise unless resourceful?
api_behavior(e)
end
end
end