Capture HTML output from the view in RAILS and save to DB

Question

Is there a way to capture the output of my view file after it is rendered?

I basically want to save the full HTML output into a database after the page renders.

TheClair · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-26 22:09:19Z

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You could use render_to_string, then stick it in the db and send the string containing the rendering to the browser. See RoR render_to_string doc.

answered Feb 26, 2010 at 22:09

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engage2245 · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-26 22:53:20Z

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What I ended up using is the following:

after_filter :save_if_necessary

and what I stored was

self.response.body

answered Feb 26, 2010 at 22:53

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This is just what I needed. Similar circumstance, except I was saving dynamically rendered xml.