Rails - Oct 2006 - newbie question: specifying view dynamically (html vs. xml)

Hello all,

I''m brand new ruby user.

Does RoR support following use case?

I''d like to maintain a single set of controllers.  However, based on 
either configuration or request parameter, I''d like to route the to 
either a .rhtml or an .rxml view.  In other words, I''d like the same
set
of controllers to support a traditional browser app or a REST style xml 
service.

It seems that in Ruby, the controller specifies a single view (via 
layout, scaffold, etc.).

Is it possible to make the controller-->view specification dynamic?

Thanks.

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First of all, you can always call render ... and tell it which view you 
want to render.

In your case, it sounds like you want respond_to
so, you can do things like

respond_to do |wants|
   wants.html { #do html render}
   wants.xml  { #do xml render }
end

Fred

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