Can I render another controller's action from my current controller in Rails 4?

Question

Might be a silly one but is it still possible to render an action from another controller in Rails 4?

Like this in UsersController:

def new
  @person = User.new        
  render 'schools/create_person'
end

For some reason it keeps rendering the new.html.erb instead of desired schools/create_person.html.erb

Answer 1

It did not clear me what do you want

but I can suggest one way if you want to render the view

create a partial view (_create_person.html.erb) which are common for both users and schools and then

in users folder new.html.erb

<%= render partial: "schools/create_person" %>

better you can make the partial view in shared folder in your views folder and render it

If you want to redirect

redirect_to create_person_schools_url #depends on your route define

Answer 2

Check your routes and see if you have the method create_person in schools routes. If positive try redirect_to :

redirect new_school_person_path

with new_school_person_path as the route to that method.