Saving to_xml to a file

Rails
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Ok, one more question…

I can dump the database to xml by doing User.to_xml

I’m wondering if I can save it to a .xml file. I’m having trouble
finding documentation on this.

Thanks!!

2

Can you even save files using Rails? I haven’t found a way to do it
yet… Thanks

3

Sam Purtill wrote:

Can you even save files using Rails? I haven’t found a way to do it
yet… Thanks

You do anything in Rails the same way you’d do it with Ruby itself. In
Rails, you probably have protected directories - you’ll need to
unprotect the directories first so you can save files there.

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Look up File.open.
http://uic.rsu.ru/doc/programming/ruby/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_io.html

You can practice in script/console to get your syntax right.

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