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I need a string of html (something like "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>") for faxing purpose.
I wrote it into a seprate erb file: views/orders/_fax.html.erb ,
and try to render the erb in action: html_data = render(:partial => 'fax').
Here is part of the controller that raises the issue:
respond_to do |format|
if @order.save
html_data = render(:partial => 'fax')
response = fax_machine.send_fax(html_data)
......
format.html { redirect_to @order, notice: 'Order was successfully created.' }
format.json { render json: @order, status: :created, location: @order }
else
format.html { render action: "new" }
format.json { render json: @order.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
It gave me an AbstractController::DoubleRenderError as below:
AbstractController::DoubleRenderError in OrdersController#create
Render and/or redirect were called multiple times in this action. Please note that you may only call render OR redirect, and at most once per action. Also note that neither redirect nor render terminate execution of the action, so if you want to exit an action after redirecting, you need to do something like "redirect_to(...) and return".
How to solve this problem?
914
If you only need the rendered HTML, and don't need any functionality from the controller, you might try using ERB directly within a helper class, eg.:
module FaxHelper
def to_fax
html = File.open(path_to_template).read
template = ERB.new(html)
template.result
end
end
The ERB docs explain this in more detail.
EDIT
To get the instance variables from the controller, pass the binding into the result call, eg:
# controller
to_fax(binding)
# helper class
def to_fax(controller_binding)
html = File.open(path_to_template).read
template = ERB.new(html)
template.result(controller_binding)
end
Note: I've never done this, but it seems workable :)
111
Use the #render_to_string method
it works the same way as the typical render method but useful when you need to add some templated HTML to a json response
http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Base/render_to_string
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