[Rails] Re: calling render_to_string outside of controller

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

Hi!

On May 26, 2006, at 3:24 PM, charlie bowman wrote:

> charlie bowman wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'm going to keep posting my attempts, maybe someone out there  
> knows how
> to do this.  Here is the offending portion on code.  It almost  
> workd but
> I get this:
>
> protected method `render_to_string' called for
> #<ActionController::Base:0xb7850f14>
>
> def execute_ruby_code( str )
>   render_class = ActionController::Base.new
>   logger.error('test')
>   logger.error(render_class.class)
>   str = str.gsub(/\<ruby\>(.*?)\<\/ruby\>/) do |match|
>     match = render_class.render_to_string(:inline => $1, :type =>
> 'rhtml')
>   logger.error(match)
>   end
>   str
> end
>
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    match = render_class.send(:render_to_string, {:inline =>  
$1, :type => 'rhtml'})


-Ezra