Filtering out XML results ----- /people.xml?title=Manager

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I'm using RESTful Rails, and I'm not sure how to filter out the XML sheet by title.

I thought you could simply type in something like this: /people.xml?title=CEO, but it's not filtering for me.

What would I have to do to be able to filter out the results correctly?

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Bob,

I haven't actually used XML with Rails, but by my understanding, calling:

/people.xml?title=CEO

is technically no different than calling:

/people?title=CEO

It just gives you the option to handle it via XML because of the respond_to. You still have to process the parameters, i.e. in the PeoplesController class for the "index" action, you might simply have:

  def index     @people = Person.find_all_by_title(params[:title])

    respond_to do |format|       format.html       format.xml { render :xml => @people }     end   end

You could probably get fancy with some metaprogramming but that might be more than necessary.

HTH!

-Danimal