Re: Renderer: rendering to *another* format inside a renderer

Michael Schuerig
Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:18:24 -0000

On Saturday 03 July 2010, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > My skeletal renderer looks like this
> >
> >   ActionController.add_renderer :pdf do |template, options|
> >
> >     html = render_to_string(template, options)
> >     ...
> >
> >   end
> >
> > The trouble here is that render_to_string looks for a template for
> > MIME type PDF, e.g. show.pdf.erb. Unfortunately, that''s not
what I
> > want. I need to get HTML.
>
> WTF?  What problem are you trying to solve that means you need to
> serve HTML when a PDF file is requested?  I don''t see how that can
> ever be the right thing to do.

I''m passing the HTML into an HTML-to-PDF converter. wkhtmltopdf in my
case. wicked_pdf does the same, but it works by alias_chain-ing render,
which I''d like to avoid. Instead, I''m defining a renderer. See

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/render-options-in-rails-3/

Michael

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