Rails: how to treat alternative Accept: content-types as JSON?

Question

So far I\'ve found two ways for request.format.json? to be true in Rails (i.e. where the incoming request is treated as JSON). One is if you request a resource and

Answer 1

An alternative to this is:

api_mime_types = %W(
  application/vnd.api+json
  text/x-json
  application/json
)

Mime::Type.unregister :json
Mime::Type.register 'application/json', :json, api_mime_types

In initializers/mime_types.rb.