I finally figured this out. I have an action that only renders html, but googlebot for instance wants text. So, I added this to the controller and everything works!
before_filter :force_html_requests, :only => :show def force_html_requests request.format = :html end Rick On Monday, November 26, 2012 6:01:19 PM UTC-6, jim wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Rick Cockerham > <li...@ruby-forum.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Excellent suggestion. From the page view I see this agent: >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; oBot/2.3.1; +http://filterdb.iss.net/crawler/) >> >> So, how do I setup my app to only accept html requests for those routes? >> Or, just not fail when it wants text? >> > > try passing a formats option to render. > > render partial: 'foo', formats: [:html] > > >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rubyonra...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/GjeWL-1w3bMJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.