Rails: How to choose which js file a controller action to render?

Question

I know the fact that by default Rails chooses the javascript file depending on action's name to render:

For example if I have

def create
     #Code and Stuff happening here
end

and here I have

create.js.erb

which will be ran by default

But is there a way that I can choose a different javascript file to be rendered from inside the action ?

For example

create1.js.erb
create2.js.erb

Answer 1

You'll want to add something like the following:

respond_to do |format|
  format.js { render :create1 }
end

Alternately, if you had a different path to it besides the default you could use:

format.js { render :file => "/path/to/save.js.erb" }

If it is a more dynamic requirement than this, you could always use string interpolation or "string".to_sym to render the desired view.