Can i return a value instead of a view from my controller?

Question

I would like to return the id of a newly created object for my ajax call instead of returning the view associated with the controller method.

Answer 1

yes , you can .

render :text=> "the text that you want to return"

Answer 2

You can do

render :text => @your_object.id

and then cast your responseText to integer in the javascript handler if needed.