Rails - Jul 2006 - How do I call a controller from a model, console, or outside of rails?

Hi,

I''m writing yet another cms and I need to capture the html output of a 
rendered template including helpers, etc from within my rails app. I 
plan to use backgroundrb, and I need to be able to capture the output of 
"pages.browse()" where pages is my controller. I need to pass in the
id
param.

How can I do this besides using Net::HTTP? Using Net::HTTP hangs when 
I''m testing using webrick.

I see that Actioncontroller::IntegrationTest can do this, but I have no 
idea of how to call that from a development/production environment.

Thanks,
Jason

On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m writing yet another cms and I need to capture the html output
> of a rendered template including helpers, etc from within my rails  
> app. I plan to use backgroundrb, and I need to be able to capture  
> the output of "pages.browse()" where pages is my controller. I
need
> to pass in the id param.
>
> How can I do this besides using Net::HTTP? Using Net::HTTP hangs  
> when I''m testing using webrick.
>
> I see that Actioncontroller::IntegrationTest can do this, but I  
> have no idea of how to call that from a development/production  
> environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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Hey Jason-

	I think you can just use render_to_string to capture what you want.

-Ezra