A simplest way to render plain TeX files (without processing them to PDF)

Hello, thanks a lot for your very useful work! :)

Please, advice me the simplest way to render just "text/tex", without PDF.
Now I use symlinking from all .pdf.erb views, partials and .pdf.erbtex layouts to their .tex.erb analogs. But this seems rather not-DRY... May it be somehow better? I mean, may be, some option on controller level?

[master-lincoln]

You could use render :text => File.read("#{Rails.root}/app/views/thename/thefile.pdf.erb")