similar to: render_to_string in model or script/runner?

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 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

Hello ~ I have a Model Action that I wish to call from script/runner. This Model accesses another action in a module in the lib directory. If I fire up script/console and execute Model.action it works perfectly, but when I run the command via script/runner it cannot find the action I want to call in my module. If I run: script/runner "puts $:" The lib directory is shown, so the

Just for collective knowledge as I have found no info on this problem online: I solved this by adding an .html.erb file for the "missing template", since by design or bug Rails3 will not find or render another controllers view (in my experience). Then in the new html.erb file, I just put <%= render "comparisons/display" %> because the views *are* able to find templates

Hi, I''m trying to execute some javascript in the browser after completing my create action in the controller. Here''s how I''m doing it: In my controller: def create # exectue some code js = render_to_string(:layout => false, :template => "planned_meals/meal.js.coffee.erb") render :js => js end Two questions: 1) Am I going about it the

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''m playing around with a list of todos, which I want to render as <ul>''s that can nest to an arbitrary level, so I wrote this as a helper method: def print_todo(t) str = "<ul>\n\t<li>" str += render_to_string(:partial => ''todo'', :object => t) + "\n" t.children.each { |c| str +=

I have a project where I''m publishing files. Once when the user clicks publish via a URL and one when an email is received that tells the app they want to publish again. Because the publishing requires templates I have them in there own views. The problem is when I want to publish via email I don''t want to ask the controller to render the views. This is what I tried to

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

When I have a user go to a certain page, it will fork off a thread that will perform some action. So the main thread will finish and render :nothing => true . Now, I want that forked off thread to render into a string a partial. However, I cannot render_to_string :partial=> :foobar because I have already rendered once. Is there anyway to get around this? -- Posted via

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

Hi all, I''m trying to use render_to_string in a controller in order to make an output file for download, and then redirect to a "Thank you for downloading" page. Of cource, this is not possible since one cannot have a "render" and "redirect" in the same action. Anyone know how I can do this? -cal

I''ve the following situation (which actually works in Rails 2.3.8 and this is a result of the migration of our app to rails3): I have a partial which is rendered a few times (imagine tr''s in a table). On the clientside there''s a script that does a json request for a specific row (jQuery + ajax dataType: ''json'' and type: ''POST'') In

Is it possible to call render_to_string() in a controller that is not set as the default route? The content controller is set in routes.rb: map.connect '''', :controller => "content". The content controller is calling a template controller, and I would like to be able to call render_to_string() within the template controller, however I receive the error:

I use render_to_string to generate short reports (in HTML) under certain conditions when users access my application. The reports are stored in the database and uses database information at the time they are generated (and can thus not be generated later, e.g; when you want to consult them). The reports are generated the same way regardless of which controller has been accessed. Conditions for

I have a production site that has a couple of batch jobs, I have used script/runner and cron to run these jobs. This works ok for jobs that only run once overnight during off peak. I am expiring sessions older than 30 mins every 15 mins using script/runner, but I''m concerned about the hit of script/runner loading up the whole rails environment, specifically since I only have a 256MB

After a fresh installation of an application, some utility scripts run with script/runner quietly aborted right after their start. No error message whatsoever, just a new shell prompt. The reason was an uninstalled dependecy, but that was difficult to determine because the load failure was not reported: % ruby script/runner ''require "foobarbaz"'' % Why

I''ve just set up caching on my site and want to expire some of fragments on an hourly basis. I was going to use cron and script/runner to do this. For other fragments that I am expiring, I am using expire_fragment inside a sweeper class, something like: class QuestionSweeper < ActionController::Caching::Sweeper observe Question def after_validation_on_update(question)

Is there a way to call or invoke a controller method from script/console or script/runner? The reason is that I''d like to pre-cache some of the actions on my controller. The pseudo code below is what I''d like to be able to do: class MyController < ApplicationController caches_action :test def test puts ''Hi there'' end end script/console:

I created a script that I call by ''./script/runner -e production UpdateItems.get_new_items()'', which basically calls the model Item: Item.create(attributes...) I''ve set up a cache sweeper which removes caches after each create/destroy/update on Item, and it works fine when accessing controllers via the web server, but apparently doesn''t work via runner.