Comments on: Render Options in Rails 3

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Ruby on Rails resources | Roshan Book — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:15:35 +0000

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By: glebm

glebm — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:55:00 +0000

By: glebm

glebm — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:51:00 +0000

I’ve written a gem for this: http://glebm.blogspot.com/2011/05/annoucing-tospreadsheet-gem.htmlIt renders .xls and .xlsx, not .pdf but take a look at the source — it’s a much improved and clean version of a custom renderer based on this post

By: Gleb Mazovetskiy

Gleb Mazovetskiy — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:08:00 +0000

I found out that in Rails > 3.0 you have to add the following lines for format.pdf to work:

class ActionController::Responder
  def to_pdf
    controller.render :pdf => controller.action_name
  end
end

You can read more on this in my blog post (I show how to integrate xlsx rendering): http://glebm.blogspot.com/2011/03/rendering-xslx-from-rails-3-without.html

@ Yehuda Katz: please update your blog post

By: Gleb Mazovetskiy

Gleb Mazovetskiy — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:28:00 +0000

config/initializers/my_renderer.rb

By: Gleb Mazovetskiy

Gleb Mazovetskiy — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:27:00 +0000

Can’t seem to make it work (Rails 3.0.5). I created a test case and SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5284443/rails-custom-renderer

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:52:10 +0000

where is the best place to plop this code? will it work if I put it in ApplicationController? it would certainly ensure that ActionController is loaded… :)

By: Jakob S

Jakob S — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:02:23 +0000

Dependent on when you try to use the method, ActionController might not be fully loaded. You should be able to require 'action_controller/base' – or perhaps require 'action_controller/metal/renderers' if you want to be more specific.

Alternatively, you can use ActionController::Renderers.add, which is effectively the same method, and the extra module looks like it triggers some of Rails' autoloading magic.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:58:40 +0000

Has the API for this since changed? Adding ActionController.add_renderer to an initializer throws an error: "undefined method `add_renderer' for ActionController:Module"

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:56 +0000

[...] Render Options in Rails 3 – Yehuda Katz looks at how Rails 3’s rendering pipeline works and demonstrates how to add a custom PDF renderer to it. [...]