CFPropertyList-rails

Render CFPropertyLists in Rails3 apps. Plists are generated in binary format.

Binary Plists are small in size and therefore ideal for usage with mobile iOS clients, such as iPhone and iPad.

Usage

In your Gemfile:

gem 'CFPropertyList-rails'

In a controller, use something like this:

respond_to do |format|
  format.html
  format.plist { render :plist => posts }
end

You can use all the options you would use with the json renderer, e.g.:

respond_to do |format|
  format.plist { render :plist => posts, :include => :comments }
end

There is an additional option you can use to skip the serialization done by the gem. This is useful in situations when a custom serialization was applied before:

respond_to do |format|
  posts = posts.as_json(:include => :comments)
  format.plist { render :plist => posts, :skip_serialization => true }
end

Changelog

1.0.1 - 14.12.2012
- update dependency to CFPropertyList ~> 2.2.0
1.0.0 - 08.02.2012
- add skip_serialization option
- remove old monkey path since CFPropertyList has fixes included since 2.0.17
0.0.1 - 12.05.2011
- initial release

License

CFPropertyList-rails is released under the MIT License

Credits

Written by Matthias Schmidt

Thanks to Christian Kruse for the CFPropertyList ruby implementation!