Rails Render is a strong method that helps you to render your web pages. It comes with many flavors including:

1) Render action: render an action in the current controller, you can specify if you want layout printed or not

    render :action => "show_home_page", :layout=> false

2) Render partial: renders part of your web page

    render :partial => "footer"

3) Render template: render a page, the file path is relative to your application

    render :template=> "templates"

4) Render file: absolute path is needed

    render :file => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/file.html"

5) Render text

    render :text => "This is rails render"

6) Render Json

    render :json => {:name => "Ruby"}.to_json