after_filter, but not quite

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Dear list,

A client of ours requested a site which has a different background for each page(don't flame me, I just build it). The background depends on stuff I pull from the DB. I planned on using an after_filter to set an instance variable containing the background. Can't do it in a before filter as the background depends on stuff that happens in the actual action.

But, as I figured out and in retrospect it makes perfect sense, the after_filter is ran after the action is already rendered. No good for me.

So my question really is; how can I made a method which is ran after all actions?

With kind regards, Harm

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you could override render().

def render(*args) some_after_filter() super(args) end

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Thats what I came up with last night(sleeping is overrated)! I think I'll implement that. Thanks a lot!