Rails: Restrict API requests to JSON format

Question

I would like to restrict requests to all API controllers to being redirected to the JSON path. I would like to use a redirect since also the URL should change according to the r

Answer 1

Setting a default in your routes won't turn all requests into a JSON request.

What you want is to make sure that whatever you're rendering is a JSON response

You pretty much had it in the first option except you need to do this

before_filter :set_default_response_format

private
  def set_default_response_format
    request.format = :json
  end

That would go under your Base API controller so that when it gets to your actual action the format will always be JSON.