How do you respond_to another js file in the controller using Ruby on Rails?

Question

I basically have an action that because of logic needs to return with the contents of another js file. How do I go about doing this? Thanks

app/controllers/classro

Answer 1

You need to add

 :layout => false 

to avoid the rendering of the html layout for your js file.

Additionally you could define the different js-file like this

:template => "classrooms/create_differently.js.erb"

both together:

 format.js { 
    render :template => "classrooms/create_differently.js.erb", 
           :layout => false  
 }

For browser-based testing, please be aware calling js not html!