XML in Rails

[bmcc]

Hello All:

I have a general question on XML in rails. I know how to return an XML
view for the cleint to render but what if I dont want to render the
XML that is created? What if I want an XML file to be generated and
saved into a folder (through file IO.)

I know this will generate an XML view if the client requests for an
XML formatted document:

respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.xml { render :layout => false }
end

This works if I have an xml builder template available.

This just outputs a view with every column in XML without a builder
template

@product = Product.find(params[:id])
@orders = @product.orders

respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.xml { render :layout => false , :xml =>
@product.to_xml(:include => :orders) }
end

But I dont want to render the XML. I want to save out a file of a
partictular model in XML format and allow Flash to take that XML and
do its own rendering. Can someone give me some insight on this.

Thanks

[Justin Blake]

Can you feed the Flash a URL instead of a path to a real file?

Otherwise you can save the xml to a file just like you'd write any
other file in ruby. Something like File.open('/path/to/file', 'w') { |
f| f.puts @product.to_xml } should do the trick.

--
Justin Blake
http://blog.adsdevshop.com

[bmcc]

Yes that is correct I came to that conclusion right after I started
this thread.

Thanks for the help Justin.

On Sep 24, 10:57 pm, Justin Blake <jbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you feed the Flash a URL instead of a path to a real file?
>
> Otherwise you can save the xml to a file just like you'd write any
> other file in ruby. Something like File.open('/path/to/file', 'w') { |
> f| f.puts @product.to_xml } should do the trick.
>
> --

> Justin Blakehttp://blog.adsdevshop.com

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