Hi, Reviving an old topic about the need of a before_render filter (topic found through Google, my apologies if there is a more recent thread)
Here is a use case: - A controller's parent class is preparing a set of JavaScript variables to be passed to the view - The view template is inserting those JavaScript variables in the HTML code - The JavaScript variables need elements loaded/set by the controller As the controller action takes place after the action filters and before the rendering, the only actual solution is to patch `render`. Code example: class ApplicationController def render(*args) unless @we_already_prepared_js_vars @we_already_prepared_js_vars = true # This is to avoid loading those variable for each call of render @_js_vars = prepare_js_vars end super end end class UserController < ApplicationController before_filter :load_user def prepare_js_vars {record_created_at: @user.created_at} end def load_user @user = User.find params[:id] end end Would be more elegant to use a before_render filter in the ApplicationController Regards On Friday, September 7, 2012 at 8:58:17 PM UTC+2, Carlos Antonio da Silva wrote: > > Please show any real use case where this will be useful, to make things > more clear. Otherwise it's just hard to figure it out examples where it's > useful or not. Thanks. > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Alexander Kurakin <kura...@mail.ru > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Will not be useful functionality similar >> https://github.com/shell/rails3_before_render ? Something like >> ActionController filters but not before action. Filters before render. See >> also http://www.perfectline.ee/blog/ruby-on-rails-before-render-filter, >> http://penkin.co.uk/rails3_before_render-plugin/. And don't you know gem >> for this? Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/VVF2HksqidUJ. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rubyonrails-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > At. > Carlos Antonio > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.