Embedding a controller view within another controller view (along with embedded js files)

[Andrew]

In my rails app I have a controller view, users#show. I'd like to render a different controller view either as an iframe or as a partial within users#show. Let's say it is pages#somepage (the controller simply returns an html view, no other processing or actions are performed).

However inside of the html code that's returned are references to a bunch of javascript files. They themselves link to other js files. I have not been able to  link against them. Does anybody have suggestions?

Here's what I tried so far

- putting the files in the controller folder didn't work

- using the public folder does work but it exposes the files to unauthenticated users and i want to avoid that