format.xml not rendering associated model properly

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respond_to do |format|       format.html # index.html.erb       format.xml { render :xml => @directories }     end

<software>#<Software:0xb7046548></software>

The model directory belongs to a software instance.

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What magic were you expecting to have happen? (Rails did exactly what you told it to).

Don't you want something like

format.xml { render :xml => @software.to_xml( :include => :directories ) }

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If you want only @directories, then you should create an rxml template to be used under software, where you marshall the xml data is any old format you want.

for directory in @directories   xml.directory do     xml.directory_name(directory.name)     etc     etc   end end

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I want each directory as xml, just how it is...but the associated "software" object, I want to include that. What you wrote initially looks backwards to me.

since this is requested as directories.xml

<directory>     ....     <software version="<%= directory.software.version"><%= directory.software.name %></software> </directory>

It sounds like that's the only way to create an index.rxml file?

I figured there would be an automatic way to map associated models to the default xml output.