render-to-string

Loading a page into memory in Rails

My rails app produces XML when I load /reports/generate_report. On a separate page, I want to read this XML into a variable and save it to the database. How can I do this? Can I somehow stream the response from the /reports/generate_report.xml URI into a variable? Or is there a better way to do it since the XML is produced by the sa...

How to pass variables to render_to_string?

Trying to do the following @message = render_to_string ( :sender => sender, :template => "template" ) But when accessing @sender in template it turns out to be nil:NilClass. Double checked if I pass the right variable and it's totally fine. Maybe there are other way to pass variables to render_to_string? ...

can't encode single quote (') using django's render_to_string

hello, i have a problem with django's render_to_string and encoding single quotes. ... = render_to_string('dummy.txt', {'request':request, 'text':text,}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))) why are only these quotes translated to '#39;' and all other special characters not? ...