Saving generated XML to a file

[bobthabuilda]

i'm attempting to generate new XML documents and save them to a file
in a custom location. however, after reading the documentation on the
XML builder (http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/Builder.html) i see
nothing mentioned in the explanations or the code that talks about XML
file creation and saving. i am fairly new to rails and ruby so i may
be missing something.

how can i save the generated XML document to a file?

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

XML::Documents inherits from XML::Node, and XML::Node includes the method
"to_xml" which converts the XML document/node to a String.
Later you can store the string in a file as usual.

--
Iñaki Baz Castillo <i...@aliax.net>

[bobthabuilda]

just figured it out.

f = File.new('output.xml', 'w')
f.write(builder.to_xml)
f.close

i was not familiar with this. thanks.

[Gregory Clarke]

Here's how I save an XML file out of a rails app:

send_data xml_data, :filename => "data.xml", :disposition => 'attachment'

Hope that helps.

Greg