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Maybe I''m missing the point? Lets take for example albums of pictures. If I have a scaffold for each, and I''m showing an album, what if I want to list all of the pictures that are in the album? Surely, I''d want to call the List action in the picture controller. render_component would do this perfectly. But we''re told not to use render_component. So

Hello, I have a hash that contains categories, and each category ID is a hash of subcategories. What i want to do is dynamically load that hash, loop thru it, for each category , subcat run a query against the DB, and render a partial. The issue is i put the render:partial in a for loop but you can only render once per action. What is the best way to loop thru all my categories without a

Hi all, Slightly OT, but is there any way to run command-line programs through Ruby? I have a rails web application that performs some database work. After a certain action is performed, the rails app should then call a java program that performs additional work to our mainframe. This is under Win 2003 Server. Any ideas? Thanks, Jin Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

I want to pass the partial to a Javascript function ( which uses the data for for creating an iframe) render_to_string is not accessible form a view thanks in advance -- Roberto Saccon - http://rsaccon.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060313/8165bcec/attachment.html

I need to invoke render() multiple times. This is not to render a response to the browser but to get the result of render() and put it in files. Is there another way to do it if it''s not possible to do it directly with render()? Btw, what''s the reasoning behind only allowing render() to be called once a request? /Marcus

Hi, I need to create a list of coutries in a driop down. I''m aware of a function ''country_options_for_select'' however this jsut seems to output a string of all countires. How can I get this list in a drop down? Thanks scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to clean my code by moving the duplicated lines : partial = render_to_string( :partial => "#{file}", :formats => [:html] ) to the pagination_partials function. ================================================= WORKING CODE: ================================================= def render_format_search_partial(file, options={}) # TODO remove this line to use the one

I do this in ASP to read a special html template that I use, then modify in code before spitting out the resulting webpage. Any ideas on how to script this in RUBY? Do I need a special GEM package? D. Bruce Moore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060817/95cf5da6/attachment.html

I know this shouldn''t be in the view but to test the code it is. Anyway if I do just session[user] I get back the user id (the id from the user table) which is good. However this code does not work. <% a = session[:user] %> <% uname = User.find(:first, :conditions => id = a) %> <%= @uname %> TIA Stuart

hi, i have 2 tables (counties and towns). counties has_many towns and towns belong_to counties. now my question: i thought i would need to do is say @counties = Counties.find(:all). should that not return to me all counties in the counties table WITH all towns associated with each county? in my view i was getting error when doing this if(counties.has_towns?) saying undefined has_towns

Is there any way to tell Rails to send the .html file it renders somewhere other than the web server? I need to save a page to the server''s file system instead of sending it to the user''s browser. Thanks! Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060518/facce47e/attachment.html

Hi all, I know that in general, view and controller tests should be isolated, such that controller specs don''t test views etc. However, I think I''ve run into a situation that might be an exception. My controller uses render_to_string to produce a chunk of HTML that it passes to a model to be processed. The controller then redirects the user to a different page. The

I have a batch job that will call script/runner, I would like in this call to create html formated email and save it to the database. This is easy enough in a controller with yournewhost.email = render_to_string :action => "email_newhost_ready", :layout => false But render_to_string is only available in controller action pack, is there a easy way to render_to_string in a Model? Or

I''m using render_to_string in an after_filter, which renders a partial that is sent to a web service. Here''s the code: class MyController < ApplicationController after_filter :post_to_webservice def show # show logic end def post_to_webservice stuff = render_to_string :partial => ''stuff'' webservice_post(stuff) end I get a DoubleRenderError in the

Hello, I need to render a layout to a text file - How can I do ? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi to everyone, In my Rails experimenting, I''ve come to a point where in the application happens what follows. 1. Upon selecting some stuff on a page, the user click on a button. 2. After clicking I need to: 2.1 Produce a PDF with some "Pretty Useful Information(TM)" 2.2 Bring the user to another page The PDF being produced with PDF::Writer requires a "render"

How can I call render_to_string outside of a controller. I''m stuck on this. I''ve nearly got my plugin finished but I can''t seem to get this to work. The method is in ActionController::Base but it is protected. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I am trying to generate a PDF from within a worker using PDF::Writer. In my controller I use render_to_string to create the pdf file however from what I understand render_to_string can only be used from a controller. Does anybody have any suggestions how I might be able to replicate this functionality in a worker? -- thanks, Felix -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

Hi, I''m developing a dashboard like page and basically want to combine the result of multiple actions on a page. I''ve done this so far: def index r1 = render_to_string :action => "action1" r2 = render_to_string :action => "action2" render :text => r1+r2 end This works, but now I want to render from other controllers and this is where

Hello, my question is rails related though it is also somewhat specific to the prawnto plugin (installed latest version as of 2010-03-15). I would ask on a prawnto forum/list if I knew where one was. Anyhow, I''m using rails 2.3.5 (with ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111) in an app that is successfully using the prawnto gem (with the prawn gem version 0.7.1). I''ve got a a