Rails - May 2006 - access a ActionControllers protected method from plugin?

I can''t belive I fit that in as the subject!

I''m writing a plugin that will allow me to grab some text from a 
database and call the render method from ActionController on part of the 
text.  I can''t seem to figure out how to access the render method of 
ActionController::Base.  I keep getting the "uninitialized constant 
Execute" error.  How can I do this?  I''m I even barking up the
right
tree?  Here''s the relevent code

# ActsAsBlog - used to convert redcloth,markdown,smarty to html.  also 
evals <ruby> code and escpates html if needed
require ''active_record''
require ''action_controller''

class Execute < ActionController::Base
  def self.execute_ruby_code( str )
    logger.error(''test'')
    str = str.gsub(/\<ruby\>(.*?)\<\/ruby\>/) do |match|
    match = self.render(:inline => $1, :type => ''rhtml'')
    logger.error(match)
    end
    str
  end
end
module TextConversion
  module Acts
    module Blog
      def self.included(base)
        base.extend(ClassMethods)
      end
        def acts_as_blog
          class_eval do
            extend TextConversion::Acts::Blog::SingletonMethods
          end
        end
      end
      module SingletonMethods
        def convert_to_html(txt, text_filter, restrictions = [])
           txt = Execute.execute_ruby_code(txt)
          end
          return txt
        end
      end
   end
end


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I''ve decided to go about it a different way.  I''m just trying
to access
the method directly from the plugin without inheriting from 
ActionController.  the ActionController::Base.render method fails now 
because of this.

undefined method `render'' for ActionController::Base:Class

The method is actually in ActionController but it is marked as 
protected, therefore I recieve the above error.  How can I call this 
method.  How can I alias it as public for this plugin?

def execute_ruby_code( str )
  logger.error(''test'')
  str = str.gsub(/\<ruby\>(.*?)\<\/ruby\>/) do |match|
  match = ActionController::Base.render(:inline => $1, :type =>
''rhtml'')
    logger.error(match)
  end
  str
end

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