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Folks, I''m trying to write a validating filter that checks if the user exists and renders XML if not. Most of the controllers will be returning XML on some error or other so I''m including RenderError in ApplicationController. Is my approach a sound one? Also, is there a shorter and more idiomatic way of writing this: if @user.nil? render_user_exists params[:username] false else true end Rest of the code below... lib/util/render_error.rb:...

Hi, When I go to my homepage all is well, however when the Pingdom bot arrives (every few seconds!), it throws the following error: ActionController::RenderError occurred in home#index: You called render with invalid options : available [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:808:in `render_with_no_layout'' My index action doesn''t call render, it just renders the index.rhtml file as per normal. These are the...