Ralph Shnelvar wrote in post #962803: > I am developing a website that does not use AJAX. > > What I would like to be able to do on the server side is find the point > in RoR (assuming it exists) where the HTML is "rendered" and capture > that string so that I can manipulate it for my purposes. > > To be a little clearer, the user at their browser can do a View Page > Source and then save that HTML to a file. I would like to generate > (i.e. capture) exactly the contents of that string/file on the server > side so that I can save it on the SERVER. > > I am not asking for the client to send back the contents of the View > Page Source back to the server. I do not wish to interfere with the > sending of the HTML to the client. I just want to get a copy of that > HTML so that I can save it to a file on the server and have that file > have exactly the same contents as a View Page Source and then Save File > as that file would be on the client. > > Is this possible and/or easy to do?
Sure. Use render_to_string. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] Sent from my iPhone -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
