[Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] can html content be filtered before it is sent back to the client?

[ara.t.howard]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Grow wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a requirement to remove some whitespace and newlines from  
> html generated by ruby templates, before it goes back to the client.
>
> It seems to be pretty hard to control placement of newlines at the  
> template level. Is there a "filter hook" of some sort that can  
> remove unwanted characters after the html has been created but  
> before its passed back to the web server?

this can be configured in apache quite easily.  to test our theory  
you could always do

   buf = render_to_string ...
   transform buf
   render :text => buf

which is down, dirty, and done today.

-a
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