# Calling render\_to\_string from DRB, or a Rake task?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-render-to-string-from-drb-or-a-rake-task/125326>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 8, 2008, 8:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-render-to-string-from-drb-or-a-rake-task/125326 "2008-01-08T08:53:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-render-to-string-from-drb-or-a-rake-task/125326/1 "2008-01-08T08:53:32Z")

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Has anyone accomplished this magical feat and have code they’d like to  
share?  
I’m trying to offload some of my PDF generation stuff into DRB, and  
generate  
some PDFs from Rake tasks. Of course, these PDFs are driven using HTML  
from  
my application…that comes from RHTML templates.

Right now I’m doing it via a module inside my controller - but of course  
all  
that Rails ActionView and ActionController magic go away when you’re in  
DRB  
or Rake land.

I’m going crazy here - someone point me in the right direction.

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**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-render-to-string-from-drb-or-a-rake-task/125326/2 "2008-12-26T06:45:48Z")

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Try following this:

[http://www.omninerd.com/articles/render\_to\_string\_in\_Rails\_Models\_or\_Rake\_Tasks](http://www.omninerd.com/articles/render_to_string_in_Rails_Models_or_Rake_Tasks)

You ultimately don’t use render\_to\_string, but you get the same results.