Template is missing error when rendering html in Rails controller action

Question

I'm attempting to use render html: to render raw html from a controller action:

class SomeController < ApplicationController
  def raw_html
    render html: '<html><body>Some body text</body></html>'
  end
end

However, when I run this controller action, I get a "Template is missing" error

I don't want to use a template, just render raw html.

The error I get is:

Processing by SomeController#raw_html as HTML Parameters: {} ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template some_controller/raw_html with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby]}. Searched in: * "/Users/doved/source/sample_app/app/views" * "/Users/doved/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@syp/gems/chameleon-0.2.4/app/views" * "/Users/doved/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@syp/gems/kaminari-0.15.1/app/views"): app/controllers/some_controller.rb:14:in raw_html' lib/middleware/cors_middleware.rb:8:incall'

I'm using Rails 4.0.2

What am I doing wrong?

Can you share the server log generated + error stacktrace when you get this error. — Kirti Thorat
– Kirti Thorat ♦, Commented Apr 9, 2014 at 21:47
I have posted an answer. Let me know if you have any doubts. — Kirti Thorat
– Kirti Thorat ♦, Commented Apr 9, 2014 at 22:27

Kirti Thorat · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-09 22:37:22Z

5

html option was added to render method in Rails 4.1 version.

Checkout the discussion on this topic on Github

If you upgrade the Rails version to Rails 4.1 then you would be able to render html as

def raw_html
  render html: '<html><body>Some body text</body></html>'.html_safe ## Add html_safe
end

With the current version of Rails 4.0.2, you would need to use

def raw_html
  render text: '<html><body>Some body text</body></html>' 
end

You are getting error as: ActionView::MissingTemplate

Because currently html option is not supported by render so the value passed with html option is ignored and Rails starts to look for a template some_controller/raw_html in views directory.

edited Apr 9, 2014 at 22:37

answered Apr 9, 2014 at 22:26

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:44:52Z

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Possible duplicate of

How to return HTML directly from a Rails controller?

This should work for you:

render text: '<html><body>Some body text</body></html>'

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:44

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answered Apr 9, 2014 at 21:51

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2 Comments

Oved D Over a year ago

this does work, and I could output a content type to indicate it's html, but not exactly what I want to do

Oved D Over a year ago

actually - putting content type wasn't necessary, I was able to just render the html, and text/html came as the content type automatically

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