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I''ve got a nice XML view of my data that works just fine when I call it from the browser. Now I''d like a different controller method to take that XML and write it to the file system. Since the XML view lives in an RXML file, is there a trick to telling the controller "Get your output into a string" instead of writing it back to the browser? After writing it out

I''m starting to get into using migrations, but I''m trying to figure out the best practice for prepopulating database tables. I''m talking about support tables that need to have data before the application can run. Before I just had a sql script with all the drop and create statements, and some insert statements at the bottom. I know there are a million ways to do