Firing a controller's action from the console

canadaduane (Duane Johnson) — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:44:03 GMT

It seems like a simple task, but here's how you can simulate the calling of a controller's action:



ruby script/console



irb> require 'action_controller/test_process'

irb> require 'application'

irb> require 'site_controller'

irb> request = ActionController::TestRequest.new

irb> response = ActionController::TestResponse.new

irb> request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET'

irb> request.action = "late_employee"

irb> InfoController.process(request,response)

Basically, it's like getting inside of a TestUnit method, but you have to do the dirty work yourself.

Render a partial to an instance variable

canadaduane (Duane Johnson) — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:27:40 GMT

Normally, if you call "render_partial" within a controller, nothing but the partial will be rendered.

Occasionally, it is useful to render a partial to an instance variable as a string so that the view can still be rendered as normal, and the string can be passed in to the view.



  add_variables_to_assigns

  @content_for_navbar = @template.render_partial 'layouts/public_navbar'

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Firing a controller's action from the console

Render a partial to an instance variable