How do I generate a page from a controller from inside a model

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I have a model that I want to use for generating web pages. The pages will be what is rendered by a controller action. The generated pages will be FTP'ed to a hosting site where they will served up as static pages.

One approach is to do it like ActionController::TestCase:

class Page

  belongs_to :book

  def contents       controller = BookController.new       request = TestRequest.new       response = TestResponse.new

      request.path = "/books/#{book.id}" # show action       controller.process(request, response)       response.body   end end

Then call page.contents will cause the BookController.show action to be called which renders a page. The rendered page then would be returned.

Is this the best way to do this?