render_to_string undefined??

rubyonrails-talk
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Do I need to include anything special in order to call render_to_string from the view? When I try to do something like this in my rhtml template:

<%= render_to_string(:partial => "user_description") %>

I get the error:

undefined method `render_to_string' for #<#<Class:0xb76e9134>: 0xb76e910c>

followed by an excerpt from my template. Do I have something wrong with the syntax?

Thanks,        --Paul

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I think I have found the answer-- apparently in the view templates, you just call "render" and not "render_to_string". The explanation for this is probably that in the view you always want to render to a string, but I'm not sure.          --Paul