Rails - Apr 2009 - Write Static File for View Output?

Is it possible to save a view''s output into a static file rather than
dynamically generate it each request?...

I''ve got a working controller method and view to select my db records
and format them into a custom XML output, but I''d like to save the
view output into "/public/data/{params[:id]}.xml"

On Apr 25, 5:58 pm, Sav <savar...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Is it possible to save a view''s output into a static file rather
than
> dynamically generate it each request?...
>
> I''ve got a working controller method and view to select my db
records
> and format them into a custom XML output, but I''d like to save the
> view output into "/public/data/{params[:id]}.xml"
Sounds to me like you should read up on action controller''s caching
support.

Fred

Just use page caching:

DataController
  caches_page :show

  def show
    # generate the XML
  end
end

Now there will be a lot of files like:
/public/data/1.xml
/public/data/2.xml
/public/data/3.xml
...

Dmitry