On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, David Kahn <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected] > > 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, >> -- >> Marnen Laibow-Koser >> http://www.marnen.org >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> -- >> 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> >> > -- 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.
