render-to-string

Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 3.0.4, PDFKit 0.5.0 I'm trying to create a PDF with PDFKit without using the middleware so I can disable javascript (there's an accordion action in there that hides a lot of info that should be on the PDF). However, whenever I try, it fails because it says the partials in my view (show.html.erb) are missing: Missing partial programs/details with {:locale=>[:en, :en], :formats=>[:pdf], :handlers=>[:erb, :rjs, :builder, :rhtml, :rxml]} If I remove the references to the partials, it works fine. I've also tried putting the partials in the same directory with show.html.erb to no

Trying to do the following @message = render_to_string ( :sender => sender, :template => "template" ) But when accessing @sender in template it turns out to be nil:NilClass. Double checked if I pass the right variable and it's totally fine. Maybe there are other way to pass variables to render_to_string? Peter Brown It might be the syntax you're using. Try using the :locals argument: @m = render_to_string :template => "template", :locals => {:sender => sender} Then you just need to access sender (without an @ ) as a local variable inside the template. Adit Saxena Here's Jason Kim 's solution

Have you seen this lovely error while working in Laravel? Method Illuminate\View\View::__toString() must not throw an exception I have seen it and it's incredibly annoying. I have found out two reasons why this error gets thrown. I just want to help people not take hours and hours of time. View answers & situations below. :) There is a very simple solution: don't cast View object to a string. Don't: echo View::make('..'); or echo view('..'); Do: echo View::make('..')->render(); or echo view('..')->render(); By casting view, it uses __toString() method automatically, which cannot throw an