ActionController::UnknownFormat

Update the create action as below:

def create
  ...
  respond_to do |format|
    if @reservation.save
      format.html do
        redirect_to '/'
      end
      format.json { render json: @reservation.to_json }
    else
      format.html { render 'new'} ## Specify the format in which you are rendering "new" page
      format.json { render json: @reservation.errors } ## You might want to specify a json format as well
    end
  end
end

You are using respond_to method but anot specifying the format in which a new page is rendered. Hence, the error ActionController::UnknownFormat .

You can also modify your config/routes.rb file like:

 get 'ajax/:action', to: 'ajax#:action', :defaults => { :format => 'json' }

Which will default the format to json. It is working fine for me in Rails 4.

Or if you want to go even further and you are using namespaces, you can cut down the duplicates:

namespace :api, defaults: {format: 'json'} do
   #your controller routes here ...
end

with the above everything under /api will be formatted as json by default.

This problem happened with me and sovled by just add

 respond_to :html, :json

to ApplicationController file

You can Check Devise issues on Github: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/issues/2667