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John Beynon
John Beynon

Reputation: 37507

capturing output of a controller action

I need to be able to capture the output of a controller action as a string - you'd think it would be a relatively easy thing but I can't get any of the render/render_to_string methods to work.

I need to be able to store a reference to a controller and action and then be able to grab it's output further on in a process (actually server side printing)

Any ideas - thanks?

Using render/render_to string like (in a model)

view = ActionView::Base.new(ActionController::Base.view_paths)
view.extend ApplicationHelper
output = view.render(:action => '<someaction>', :controller => '<somecontroller')

this results in;

/Users/---/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:48:in `method_missing': undefined method `formats' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

if i try to use render_to_string I get;

undefined method `render_to_string' for #<ActionView::Base:0x0000010400c760> (NoMethodError)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1564

Answers (1)

Lukas Stejskal
Lukas Stejskal

Reputation: 2562

Why don't you use curl? 

curl http://localhost:3000/controller/action

Using curl gem, you can call it even from console:

require 'curl'
page = CURL.new.get('http://localhost:3000/controller/action')

UPDATE

From the rails console:

app.get('/controller/action')
app.response.body

Upvotes: 1

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