How can I explicitly declare a view from a Rails controller?

Question

I want to explicitly call a view from my controller.

Right now I have:

def some_action   .. do something ...   respond_to do |format|     format.xml   end end 

... then it calls my some_action.xml.builder view. How can I call some other view? Is there a parameter in respond_to I'm missing?

Thanks,

JP

Answer 1

You could do something like the following using render:

respond_to do |format|     format.html { render :template => "weblog/show" } end 

Answer 2

See the Rendering section of the ActionController::Base documentation for the different ways you can control what to render.

You can tell Rails to render a specific view (template) like this:

# Renders the template located in [TEMPLATE_ROOT]/weblog/show.r(html|xml) (in Rails, app/views/weblog/show.erb)   render :template => "weblog/show"  # Renders the template with a local variable   render :template => "weblog/show", :locals => {:customer => Customer.new}