On Saturday 03 July 2010, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Michael Schuerig wrote: > > My skeletal renderer looks like this > > > > ActionController.add_renderer :pdf do |template, options| > > > > html = render_to_string(template, options) > > ... > > > > end > > > > The trouble here is that render_to_string looks for a template for > > MIME type PDF, e.g. show.pdf.erb. Unfortunately, that's not what I > > want. I need to get HTML. > > WTF? What problem are you trying to solve that means you need to > serve HTML when a PDF file is requested? I don't see how that can > ever be the right thing to do.
I'm passing the HTML into an HTML-to-PDF converter. wkhtmltopdf in my case. wicked_pdf does the same, but it works by alias_chain-ing render, which I'd like to avoid. Instead, I'm defining a renderer. See http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/render-options-in-rails-3/ Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- 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.
