Forcing HTTP Response to return Status 200 in Rails

Question

How do you force your requests to return status 200 except for serious cases where I return 500? Currently, I am running into the issue where my client keeps getting a status code of 411 (length not specified) and this is causing issues with my test framework.

Is there a way to manually specify your return status in maybe a Rails controller?

EDIT: More specifically I know that you can use

:status

but where do I place that when using

format.json { render :json=>final_obj}

to return a HTTP response after a POST?

Answer 1

render status: 200, json: @controller.to_json

Answer 2

I suppose this should answer your question, if I understood your question correctly.

Ruby 1.9.3

format.json { render json: final_obj, status: :ok }

Ruby 1.8.7

format.json { render :json => final_obj, :status => :ok }