How to render erb template to string inside action?

Question

I need a string of html (something like \"Hello World\") for faxing purpose.

I wrote it into a seprat

Answer 1

Use the #render_to_string method

it works the same way as the typical render method but useful when you need to add some templated HTML to a json response

http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Base/render_to_string