Different views/same action

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Good evening all.

I have two different places in my app that need to call the same controller/action and react differently in terms of output. In other words, in one case I want to use some rjs to update a page in a certain way and in another case - I'd like to to do something entirely different to a different/distinct page but use the same controller/action.

Say controller is foo and action is 'unsubscribe'...

class Foo << ApplicationController   def unsubscribe      foo = SomeModel.find(params[:id])      if foo         SomeModel.delete_all(:condtions....)      end

    # in one case i want to update the calling page (x) with some indication     # in another, the page has a completely different dom and i need to do something else     render :update do |page|         page.do_something      end   end end

Is the answer to just create two actions here?

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@Cory, take a look at the RJS proxies for the DOM. Things like page.select(...).any should help for what you're trying to achieve.