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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 18, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-send-rendered-html-to-somewhere-besides-the-web-serve/60924 "2006-05-18T16:59:16Z")\
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**Author:**  [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-send-rendered-html-to-somewhere-besides-the-web-serve/60924/1 "2006-05-18T16:59:16Z")
Is there any way to tell Rails to send the .html file it renders
somewhere other than the web server? I need to save a page to the
server’s file system instead of sending it to the user’s browser.
Thanks!
Bill
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**Author:**  [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-send-rendered-html-to-somewhere-besides-the-web-serve/60924/2 "2006-05-18T17:13:37Z")
On 5/18/06, Bill W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Is there any way to tell Rails to send the .html file it renders somewhere
> other than the web server? I need to save a page to the server’s file
> system instead of sending it to the user’s browser.
[http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/)
Look up “render\_to\_string”
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**Author:**  [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-send-rendered-html-to-somewhere-besides-the-web-serve/60924/3 "2006-05-18T17:37:00Z")
Thanks, James. I’ll check it out!
Best regards,
Bill
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From: “James L.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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Subject: Re: [Rails] Can I send rendered .html to somewhere besides the
webserver?
On 5/18/06, Bill W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Is there any way to tell Rails to send the .html file it renders somewhere
> other than the web server? I need to save a page to the server’s file
> system instead of sending it to the user’s browser.
[http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/)
Look up “render\_to\_string”
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**Author:**  [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-send-rendered-html-to-somewhere-besides-the-web-serve/60924/4 "2006-05-18T22:36:13Z")
Hi Martin,
Thanks! I appreciate it very much.
Best regards,
Bill
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**Author:**  [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-send-rendered-html-to-somewhere-besides-the-web-serve/60924/5 "2006-05-18T19:21:05Z")
Hi Bill,
This is from a recent post to this list:
@render = render :action =\> controller.action\_name
outf = File.open(Time.now + “.html”,“w”)
outf.puts @render
outf.close
I guess after that you can do whatever you want with outf …
cheers
Martin