Ruby on Rails: How do detect if access by JSON?

Question

I got a GET URL that calls a controller method getInfo. It can be called by mydomain.com/getInfo.json?params=BLAHBLAH or mydomain.com/getInfo?params=BLAHBLAH

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Answer 1

Yes. Within the controller you can call the request.format method to determine the format requested by the user.

If you need more than just the format, you can look at request.url for the full URL. More details about the request object can be found here.