Rendering View output to a file

Rails
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I want to generate a set of static HTML pages for uploading to a site.
Is there a simple way to get a Controller/View to render to a file or
directory, suitable for uploading?

I know I could fire up the server, render the page and save it from a
browser, but that would be tedious after the first dozen or so pages…

TIA.

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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Fearless F. [email protected]
wrote:

I want to generate a set of static HTML pages for uploading to a site.

I know I could fire up the server, render the page and save it from a
browser, but that would be tedious after the first dozen or so pages…

Or just use wget in “spider” mode to crawl and retrieve the whole set
with one command :slight_smile:

FWIW,

Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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You could use page caching. That would output files to tmp/cache

Luke

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Hassan S. wrote:

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Fearless F. [email protected]
wrote:

I want to generate a set of static HTML pages for uploading to a site.

You might want to look into how StaticMatic does this (though I believe
it’s build on Merb, not Rails). If StaticMatic itself is not suitable
for your purposes, its build script may have useful ideas.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]