Rails - Jul 2006 - Aggregate Controllers

Hi,

I''m developing a dashboard like page and basically want to combine the
result of multiple actions on a page.  I''ve done this so far:

def index
  r1 = render_to_string :action => "action1"
  r2 = render_to_string :action => "action2"

  render :text => r1+r2
end

This works, but now I want to render from other controllers and this is where
I''m stuck.  So in my current controller lets call it
"Dashboard", I want to render content from a controller called
"HumanResources" and another controller called "Marketing". 
I tried this:

def index
   r1 = render_to_string :action => "human_resources/action"
   r2 = render_to_string :action => "marketing/action"
 
   render :text => r1+r2
 end

This doesn''t work.  Any ideas on how from one controller I can get the
output of another controller and include it in the calling controllers output.

Thanks in advance, scott.
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On 7/11/06, Scott Walter <tx_scottwalter@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I''m developing a dashboard like page and basically want to combine
the
> result of multiple actions on a page.  I''ve done this so far:
>
> def index
>   r1 = render_to_string :action => "action1"
>   r2 = render_to_string :action => "action2"
>
>   render :text => r1+r2
> end
>
> This works, but now I want to render from other controllers and this is
> where I''m stuck.  So in my current controller lets call it
"Dashboard", I
> want to render content from a controller called "HumanResources"
and another
> controller called "Marketing".  I tried this:
>
> def index
>   r1 = render_to_string :action => "human_resources/action"
>   r2 = render_to_string :action => "marketing/action"
>
>   render :text => r1+r2
> end
>
> This doesn''t work.  Any ideas on how from one controller I can get
the
> output of another controller and include it in the calling controllers
> output.
>
> Thanks in advance, scott.
>
I''ve never used this method, but in the docs it says it works like a
normal
call to render, and just returns to a string instead of to a browser.

That being the case, would a standard url_for type hash work

r1 = render_to_string :controller => ''human_resources'',
:action => ''action''

Don''t know tho...

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