RAILS: Rendering views from the same controller based on the route - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have two routes (defined in my config/routes.rb)
match 'compare' => 'front_office#search_by_id', :via => :get, :as => :front_office_compare
match 'full_report' => 'front_office#search_by_id', :via => :get, :as => :front_office_full_report
I would like to know how I can tell my controller to render the view based on my route, without adding a parameter on my URL.
Based on this Question&Answer I Managed to get the result I want with
match 'compare' => 'front_office#search_by_id', :via => :get, :as => :front_office_compare, :defaults => { :render => 'compare' }
match 'full_report' => 'front_office#search_by_id', :via => :get, :as => :front_office_full_report, :defaults => { :render => 'full_report' }
And in my controller I defined my action as:
def search_by_id
render :action => (params[:render] || "full_report")
end
But is this a Good Practice or is there a better way to do it?

Answer 1

Instead of creating different routes for each category you are making for simplifying you can write it like:
# config/routes.rb
get ":category", to: "front_office#search_by_id", as: 'front_office', constraints: {category: /(compare|full_report)/}
the above routes looks for /compare and /full_report and this will call search_by_id action in front_office controller.
then inside the controller do as follows:
def search_by_id
render params[:category]
end
params[:category] will hold the slug values which we passed through the URL