Question

I have some complex message to show inside of a flash message so instead of having a long string in the controller, I extracted it to a partial. I do this:

flash[:success] = render(:partial => "complicated_message")
…
respond_to do |format|
  format.html
  format.js
end    

and then a normal view should be rendered which display the flash. This is a double render error, of course, since I have “wasted” a render on the partial.

What is a better way to do this?

Answer 1

The answer, as suggested by @jdoe is to use the render_to_string method instead.