Represents an HTTP response generated by a controller action. Use it to retrieve the current state of the response, or customize the response. It can either represent a real HTTP response (i.e. one that is meant to be sent back to the web browser) or a TestResponse (i.e. one that is generated from integration tests).

Response is mostly a Ruby on Rails framework implementation detail, and should never be used directly in controllers. Controllers should use the methods defined in ActionController::Base instead. For example, if you want to set the HTTP response's content MIME type, then use ActionControllerBase#headers instead of Response#headers.

Nevertheless, integration tests may want to inspect controller responses in more detail, and that's when Response can be useful for application developers. Integration test methods such as ActionDispatch::Integration::RequestHelpers#get and ActionDispatch::Integration::RequestHelpers#post return objects of type TestResponse (which are of course also of type Response).

For example, the following demo integration test prints the body of the controller response to the console:

class DemoControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  def test_print_root_path_to_console
    get('/')
    puts response.body
  end
end
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Included Modules
Constants
CONTENT_TYPE = "Content-Type".freeze
 
SET_COOKIE = "Set-Cookie".freeze
 
LOCATION = "Location".freeze
 
NO_CONTENT_CODES = [204, 304]
 
EMPTY = " "
 
Attributes
[RW] charset

The charset of the response. HTML wants to know the encoding of the content you're giving them, so we need to send that along.
[R] content_type

Sets the HTTP response's content MIME type. For example, in the controller you could write this:

response.content_type = "text/plain"

If a character set has been defined for this response (see charset=) then the character set information will also be included in the content type information.
[RW] header

Get and set headers for this response.
[RW] headers=

Get and set headers for this response.
[RW] request

The request that the response is responding to.
[W] sending_file
[R] status

The HTTP status code.
[R] stream

The underlying body, as a streamable object.
Class Public methods
new(status = 200, header = {}, body = [], options = {})

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 113
def initialize(status = 200, header = {}, body = [], options = {})
  super()

  default_headers = options.fetch(:default_headers, self.class.default_headers)
  header = merge_default_headers(header, default_headers)

  self.body, self.header, self.status = body, header, status

  @sending_file = false
  @blank        = false
  @cv           = new_cond
  @committed    = false
  @sending      = false
  @sent         = false
  @content_type = nil
  @charset      = nil

  if content_type = self[CONTENT_TYPE]
    type, charset = content_type.split(/;\s*charset=/)
    @content_type = Mime::Type.lookup(type)
    @charset = charset || self.class.default_charset
  end

  prepare_cache_control!

  yield self if block_given?
end
Instance Public methods
_status_code()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 300
def _status_code
  @status
end
await_commit()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 141
def await_commit
  synchronize do
    @cv.wait_until { @committed }
  end
end
await_sent()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 147
def await_sent
  synchronize { @cv.wait_until { @sent } }
end
body()

Returns the content of the response as a string. This contains the contents of any calls to render.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 225
def body
  strings = []
  each { |part| strings << part.to_s }
  strings.join
end
body=(body)

Allows you to manually set or override the response body.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 234
def body=(body)
  @blank = true if body == EMPTY

  if body.respond_to?(:to_path)
    @stream = body
  else
    synchronize do
      @stream = build_buffer self, munge_body_object(body)
    end
  end
end
body_parts()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 246
def body_parts
  parts = []
  @stream.each { |x| parts << x }
  parts
end
close()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 271
def close
  stream.close if stream.respond_to?(:close)
end
code()

Returns a string to ensure compatibility with Net::HTTPResponse.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 194
def code
  @status.to_s
end
commit!()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 151
def commit!
  synchronize do
    before_committed
    @committed = true
    @cv.broadcast
  end
end
committed?()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 175
def committed?; synchronize { @committed }; end
content_type=(content_type)

Sets the HTTP content type.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 184
def content_type=(content_type)
  @content_type = content_type.to_s
end
cookies()

Returns the response cookies, converted to a Hash of (name => value) pairs

assert_equal 'AuthorOfNewPage', r.cookies['author']

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 286
def cookies
  cookies = {}
  if header = self[SET_COOKIE]
    header = header.split("\n") if header.respond_to?(:to_str)
    header.each do |cookie|
      if pair = cookie.split(';').first
        key, value = pair.split("=").map { |v| Rack::Utils.unescape(v) }
        cookies[key] = value
      end
    end
  end
  cookies
end

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location()

The location header we'll be responding with.

Also aliased as: redirect_url

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 261
def location
  headers[LOCATION]
end
location=(url)

Sets the location header we'll be responding with.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 267
def location=(url)
  headers[LOCATION] = url
end
message()

Returns the corresponding message for the current HTTP status code:

response.status = 200
response.message # => "OK"

response.status = 404
response.message # => "Not Found"
Also aliased as: status_message

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 206
def message
  Rack::Utils::HTTP_STATUS_CODES[@status]
end
prepare!()
Alias for: to_a
redirect_url()
Alias for: location
respond_to?(method, include_private = false)

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 211
def respond_to?(method, include_private = false)
  if method.to_s == 'to_path'
    stream.respond_to?(method)
  else
    super
  end
end
response_code()

The response code of the request.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 189
def response_code
  @status
end
sending!()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 159
def sending!
  synchronize do
    before_sending
    @sending = true
    @cv.broadcast
  end
end
sending?()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 174
def sending?;   synchronize { @sending };   end
sent!()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 167
def sent!
  synchronize do
    @sent = true
    @cv.broadcast
  end
end
sent?()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 176
def sent?;      synchronize { @sent };      end

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status=(status)

Sets the HTTP status code.

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 179
def status=(status)
  @status = Rack::Utils.status_code(status)
end
status_message()
Alias for: message
to_a()

Turns the Response into a Rack-compatible array of the status, headers, and body.

Also aliased as: prepare!, to_ary

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 277
def to_a
  rack_response @status, @header.to_hash
end
to_ary()
Alias for: to_a
to_path()

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# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/response.rb, line 219
def to_path
  stream.to_path
end