Render the body via different method in rails

Question

i have been working on a specific use case, where we need to render something like

render body: nil
render nothing: true

so these two things has to used in different methods, like

def render_method
  if some_condition
    render body: nil
  else 
    render nothing: true
  end
end

so while calling this, from another method like

def method2
  render_method
end

Anyhow this is rendering to the method 2.

Is there any way for this to render to the method which called above?

"anyhow this is rendering to the method 2" - what does this mean exactly, "render to a method"? — Sergio Tulentsev, Feb 22 '23 at 13:52
@SergioTulentsev i mean the render_method, from where the second method gets called. — jansha, Feb 22 '23 at 13:56
I still have no idea what you expect to happen and what happens instead. — Sergio Tulentsev, Feb 22 '23 at 13:57
It is perfectly fine to call a method that renders differently depending on a condition. And I would basically work like the methods in your question, with the only difference that both, `body: nil` and `nothing: true` or invalid parameters to the [`render`](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Renderer.html#method-i-render) method. When you elaborate on what you want to achieve and what should be returned in both cases, then we might be able to help. — spickermann, Feb 22 '23 at 14:11
RE `nothing: true`: it used to work. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43428991/what-to-use-instead-of-render-text-and-render-nothing-true-in-rails-5-1 — Sergio Tulentsev, Feb 22 '23 at 14:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '23 at 14:12

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I'm not sure to fully understand your question but you have to add return if you are in this case:

def index
  if condition
    render html: 'HTML HERE' and return
  end 

  render json: {}
end

answered Feb 22 '23 at 14:12

Alexis CHEVREUX

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