Rails: render text gives missingtemplate error

Question

I am trying to do an AJAX call with Rails. The call is to the change_profile action in my controller. The contents of this action are as follows:

def change_profile
    @test = params[:test]
    puts "AAAAAAA #{@test}"
    respond_to do |format|
       format.html
       format.js
    end
    render(:text => "FINISHED THE AJAX REQUEST")
end

When I call this, however, the Rails console says:

ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template main/change_profile  ....

I don't understand why this is happening. Since I'm rendering text, shouldn't it know not to try to find the template and just render the text?

Answer 1

When left without a {}, the respond_to block looks for a file called change_profile.erb.js or some other change_profile.xxx.js. Add your code within the respond_to block

def change_profile
    @test = params[:test]
    puts "AAAAAAA #{@test}"
    respond_to do |format|
       format.html
       format.js {
         render :text => "FINISHED THE AJAX REQUEST"
       }
    end
end