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Sam Kong
Sam Kong

Reputation: 5810

A better way to get the rendered view code?

I need to send some html code to another site via API on my rails 2.3 application. The html code is rendered by another action. Is there a good way for a controller to get the rendered view html code?

One way I can think of is that action A calls action B via HTTP and get the result. However, I think this is a waste of resources. Is there a better way?

Thanks.

Sam

Upvotes: 1

Views: 51

Answers (2)

Larry K
Larry K

Reputation: 49104

I think you want render_to_string which will send the output of the render to a string, instead of back to the client. Use it in your format.js response block.

See api doc

Upvotes: 2

Max
Max

Reputation: 15965

respond_to do |format|
  format.js { render(:partial => 'some_thing.html.erb', :layout => false) }
end

Upvotes: 0

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