Using “ApplicationController.new.render_to_string” in a Rails api app (config.api_only = true)
Using “ApplicationController.new.render_to_string” in a Rails api app (config.api_only = true) I have a Rails 5 app build as an api app: # config/application.rb module MyApp class Application < Rails::Application config.api_only = true end end In one of my controller actions I need to render some Ruby flavoured html, and then serve it back in the json response. A standard Rails app do this: # app/controllers/my_controller.rb def my_action html = ApplicationController.new.render_to_string("my_erb_or_haml_file", locals: {foo: "bar"}, layout: false) render :json => {html: html}, :status => :ok end However, for my slimmed api app ApplicationController.new.render_to_string seems to just render " " . This confuses me, because I would expect it to either serve the content or raise an exception. ApplicationController.new.render_to_string " " Any suggestions what route I should take in order to generate Ruby flavoured html? This ques...
