set_mobile_format's XHR filter breaks jQuery Mobile

[mattg]

set_mobile_format assumes that XHR requests should not use the :mobile format. I'm not sure it should have an opinion about this. jQuery Mobile makes XHR requests expecting that it will get the mobile version of a page. I really want to use jQuery Mobile, so I made the following very ugly patch in my copy:

if is_mobile_device? && !request.xhr?

to:

if is_mobile_device? && ['/','text/html'].include?(request.format)

Maybe this could be a configuration option.

[technicalpickles]

I ran into this too, it took quite a bit of debugging since it only happens in production mode.

Maybe we could have a method like should_use_mobile_format that defaults to if is_mobile_device? && !request.xhr?. This would allow jquery mobile users, or others, override it easily in application_controller.

[ankitb]

I am hitting the exact same issue (or so I think ...). None of my pages are rendering properly on a mobile device as soon as I enable Mobile fu.

I am not sure if I understand the fix above. Is there a way to force the output stream to be set mobile without changing the underlying plugin?

Thanks

[mattg]

ankitb, are you using jQuery Mobile? If not, then you have a different problem.

[ankitb]

Yes I am using jquery mobile.

[mattg]

There is a way to force the output to be mobile, but it behaves differently from when it happens on its own. Are you just getting blank pages?

[jampow]

I'm with the same problem, using jQuery Touch from Sencha Labs.

@mattg did u fix this like on your first post?

[mattg]

I did. I've since made more modifications. I really need to make a fork.

[benlangfeld]

This project is abandoned. Please see the active fork at http://github.com/benlangfeld/mobile-fu. Please test with the released gem and master branch of the new home for the project, and file an issue on the other repo if you still have problems.

See #40.