DetectMobiles

!!! Also detects iPhone and iPod Touch, now !!!

This plugin provides an instance method to ActionController::Base which can be used as a before_filter. The filter scans the request for indication of a mobile browser or an iPhone/iPod and then sets request.format to either :mobile or :iphone. This can be used in the responds_to block and in the views.

Usage Example

  • install the gem

  • add the MIME types to config/initializers/mime_types.rb

Mime::Type.register_alias “text/html”, :iphone Mime::Type.register_alias “text/html”, :mobile

  • add the gem to your config/environment.rb

-> config.gem “detect_mobiles”

  • add the before_filter to your controller

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

before_filter :detect_mobiles

end

now, the request.format will be changed to :mobile/:iphone depending on the browser.

Copyright © 2008 Alex P, released under the MIT license