Once you decide on an HTML element to hold the results from the controller action, you can do simple things like a "remote_function" to update it. You can render a partial into a div as well, so don't bother trying to generate HTML tags in your controller.
On Dec 6, 2:13 am, "Greg Hauptmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Question = From within a View, how can I render the text output from a > separate controller action??? (call it graph/get_data) > > So it's not a partial, as what I want to do is make a separate call to > get the data to display. > > Background = I have a two step process for an ad-hoc report. The > first step is to gather the options, then the second action/view is to > display. The thing is in the display view the graph is actually an > embedded Flash object and it gets it's data via the URL of my > graph/get_data controller/action. To pass the options from the > collect to display steps I used Flash however. So the side effect is > that I can't just navigate to the graph/get_data URL and see the XML > data anymore, as it relies upon the flash object being there for all > the details of the graph. To aid in bug finding I'm just after a way > (when I'm attempting to display the graph) to see the output from the > graph/get_data controller/action, which is XML using the Rails builder > views. > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
