Rails - Jan 2007 - How to pass local variables to render_to_string?

I need to use a view to generate some text, using render_to_string. The
form I am using is:

    render_to_string :template => "foo/bar"

The problem is that this form does not accept the :locals attribute.
Therefore any variables I want to be accessible in the view must be
instance variables.

I understand that this is standard view behavior, but whereas the point
of most controllers is to generate instance variables for the view, in
my case that''s secondary. And this scheme means I have to think through
ahead of time what will be displayed in the view and make sure that
variable has an @ in front of it.

Is there a more concrete way of passing local variables to this form of
render/render_to_string?

Thanks!

/adam

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Hi --

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Adam Block wrote:
>
> I need to use a view to generate some text, using render_to_string. The
> form I am using is:
>
>    render_to_string :template => "foo/bar"
>
> The problem is that this form does not accept the :locals attribute.
> Therefore any variables I want to be accessible in the view must be
> instance variables.
>
> I understand that this is standard view behavior, but whereas the point
> of most controllers is to generate instance variables for the view, in
> my case that''s secondary. And this scheme means I have to think
through
> ahead of time what will be displayed in the view and make sure that
> variable has an @ in front of it.
>
> Is there a more concrete way of passing local variables to this form of
> render/render_to_string?
The first thing that comes to mind is putting the values in a hash,
rather than local variables, and passing that hash along in one
instance variable.  I don''t know how that would play with the rest of
what you''re doing though.


David

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David wrote:
> The first thing that comes to mind is putting the values in a hash,
> rather than local variables, and passing that hash along in one
> instance variable.
Hi David.

Yes, that would be cleaner, or at least more deliberate (since the 
packaging of the local controller variables into an instance hash would 
all happen in one place instead of the instance variable assignments 
floating all over the controller method).

Thanks!

/afb

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