CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
antm
antm

Reputation: 143

How to save a rendered view as a static file?

My Rails 2.3 app generates a page in HTML/CSS or as a word doc. I'd like to save that html file to the filesystem as a static file (ie. filename.html or filename.doc). I plan to have a preview action w/ the fully rendered page and a 'save report' button. Our users will access those static files later. (I'll save the path to the db.)

Any suggestions for how to do this?

I'm as far as creating a file and saving it, but I'm not sure how to get my rendered view into it. Bonus points if anyone knows how to save it up to S3! Many thanks!

Upvotes: 14

Views: 6084

Answers (2)

Hong
Hong

Reputation: 1333

Another way is adding an after_action to the controller, and in that action using response.body to access rendered content. In this way, your controller can respond to client as normal, save rendered content to database in meanwhile.

Upvotes: 0

cwninja
cwninja

Reputation: 9768

render_to_string is your friend. One you have it in a string, burn it to file in the usual way.

class FooController
  def save_foo_to_disk
    data = render_to_string( :action => :index )
    File.open(file_path, "w"){|f| f << data }
    flash[:notice] = "saved to #{file_path}"
  end
end

As far as S3 goes, see the aws-s3 gem. It seem to do what you are after. Usage is a little like this.

AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
  :access_key_id     => 'abc',
  :secret_access_key => '123'
)
S3Object.store(file_name, data, 'bucket-name')

Have fun, and don't run with scissors.

Upvotes: 31

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