Rails: rendering XML adds tag

Question

I\'ve got a Rails controller which is going to output a hash in XML format - for example:

class MyController < ApplicationController
  # GET /example.xml
  de         


        

Answer 1

I think if you're converting an object to XML, you need a tag which wraps everything, but you can customise the tag name for the wrapper:

def index        
  @output = {"a" => "b"}

  respond_to do |format|
    format.xml  {render :xml => @output.to_xml(:root => 'output')}
  end
end

Which will result in:

  
    b