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Rahul garg
Rahul garg

Reputation: 9362

Rails get dump of rendered view

How can i include render response of a view inside another , but dumped.

like i am currently using:

css: "<%= render :partial => "myurl/blah", :formats=> [:css], :layout => false %>",

( in a rendered js file, where i am creating a json object and including various other files too.. )

The response here is like this :

css: "#utilities {width: 800px;}
#utilities p,
#utilities ul {margin-bottom: 1em;}
#utilities_scroll {height:500px; padding:0 10px 0 10px; overflow:scroll;}
#utilities_scroll_inner {width: 733px;}
#utilities-search-form {margin-top: 20px;} .. ."

However i want dump of it like this : 

css: "#utilities {width: 800px;}\n#utilities p,\n#utilities ul {margin-bottom:  .. "

EDIT:

In response to:

css : <%= eval("render :partial => 'myurl/blah', :formats=> [:css], :layout => false").dump %>

It is dumping the html but slightly incorrect way,

See in rails console :

 a = "fdjasdlkfs 32$#%$#^$%^<>tv5$ ;'"  # => "fdjasdlkfs 32$#%$#^$%^<>tv5$ ;'" 
a.dump      #=> "\"fdjasdlkfs 32$#%$#^$%^<>tv5$ ;'\""

That would be correct way but , in html with the line i'm including , the response is as : (if i have in myurl/blah.css file as : "fdjasdlkfs 32$#%$#^$%^<>tv5$ ;'"

The result is 

css : &quot;\&quot;fdjasdlkfs 32$#%$#^$%^&lt;&gt;tv5$ ;'\&quot;\n&quot;

see the difference as < > " are transformed very differently in both cases..( i needed it as per first format"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 300

Answers (2)

Rahul garg
Rahul garg

Reputation: 9362

Thanks to Vik for efforts... But after long hours of search i ended up as :

css : <%= JSON.dump(render :partial => "abc/url", :formats=> [:css], :layout => false).html_safe %>
css: <%= eval("render :partial => 'blah/blah', :formats=> [:css], :layout => false").dump.html_safe%>,
css: <%= eval("render :partial => 'blah/blah', :formats=> [:css], :layout => false").to_json.html_safe%>,

as solution for the problem.... I have just started up on Ruby,rails and find strange there is no proper documentation regarding all these small things...hope this helps someone...

however in my case i ended up using for my solution as : ( a little diff from question ) in controller :

@cssrender = JSON.dump(render_to_string(:file => "blah/blah", :layout => false , :formats =>[:css]))

and in view just css :<%[email protected]_safe%>

Upvotes: 0

Vik
Vik

Reputation: 5961

Use eval . I never tried this before but it would work .

Try :

css : <%= eval("render :partial => 'myurl/blah', :formats=> [:css], :layout => false") %>

Upvotes: 1

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