Ruby on Rails Thursday, October 28, 2010



On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, David Kahn <dk@structuralartistry.com> wrote:


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
David Kahn wrote in post #957895:
> In Rails 2 I could do this to get the view as a string (i.e. to save it
> to a
> file):
>
>     av = ActionView::Base.new(Rails::Configuration.new.view_path)
>     html = av.render(
>         :partial => "comparisons/display",
>         :locals => { :comparison => self, :format_html => nil,
> :print_view
> => print_view, :fully_qualified_url_prefix =>
> fully_qualified_url_prefix,
> :user => user }
>     )
>
> In Rails 3 it seemingly does not work anymore.

Did you perchance want render_to_string (which also exists in Rails 2)?

Hmmm... yup, that works, thanks. Would rather do that in the model but  I can pass it in and step aside from this mess. I must have been hankering for punishment in doing it the way I did it in the first place.

Actually just discovered the reason I tried to do this in the model: I need to render this view to string from other controllers/models. Do you know offhand if I can just instantiate this controller and still call one of it's methods to string from a different controller or even better from a model? Just trying it right now and getting  "NameError Exception: uninitialized constant InstallerController::ComparisonController" (foreign controller name is InstallerController).





Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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