How do I get the output from a controller action into a string

[ikeo]

so say I have a controller such that

/quote/xml/200

produces an xml document

and I want to create an action "post" in the "quote" controller so that

/quote/post/200

takes the xml document produced from action "xml" (eg: "/quote/xml/200"), stores it in a string and posts that to a certain url.

how could I go about doing that?


Right now I'm just using the net/http class and trying to do this

url = URI.parse("http://localhost:3000/quote/xml/200")
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url) 

but even that is just hanging on the second line of that code
eventually throwing an

execution expired

error.

any ideas?

[ikeo]

Thanks guys ... figured it out

This stores it in a string as I want

@xml = render_component_as_string :controller => "quote", :action => "xml", :params => {:request_id => params[:id] }

and from there you can use the net/http or open-uri libraries to do the posting.