Question

I have a Controller named ProductsController. In that controller are several actions such as socks and towels. I also have views of socks and towels. The view pages of socks and towels have the exact same form inside it. I’m going to use ajax in both files for the forms. Since the form is the exact same in both views, I see it pointless to create multiple ajax js files for the actions to call when ajax is called. How can I have both actions socks and towels call the same js.erb file instead of socks.js.erb and towels.js.erb respectively?

My controller and the action socks.

def socks
 @socks = Socks.all

 respond_to do |format|
   format.html # index.html.erb
   format.json { render json: @socks }
   #ok, I get the line below is needed for ajax. Is there something I could add for
   #the action not to call socks.js.erb and instead a different file, say ajax.js.erb
   format.js
 end

end

Answer 1

I think you’re looking for render here. Using it you can render a template/view of another action. See the doc: Layouts and Rendering.

render 'products/show'
render :template => 'products/show'
render "/u/apps/warehouse_app/current/app/views/products/show"