How do I render a partial to a string from within a filter attached to a controller

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Published on 2010-04-09T22:55:08Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 15:53 UTC
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I have some code I need to use in multiple controllers in a rails 1.0 application (I can't, for strange reasons upgrade to a newer rails). I've extracted the relevant code into a filer object, and I'm using the around_filter construct to execute it.

Before the extract, I was using the method render_to_string() to get the contents of a rendered partial into a string. However, this method is protected, so I am unable to access it from within my Filter object. As a workaround, I tried adding this to my ApplicationController:

def render_to_string(*a)
  super(*a)
end 

this seems to have remedied the protection level issue, but now I get the error:

Can only render or redirect once per action

When no such error occurred before the extraction. Why? Is there a different approach I should take here?

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