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jvillian
jvillian

Reputation: 20263

How to use a string with redirect_to?

I'm sure this is a bone-headed question, so apologies in advance. I want to use a string with my redirect_to, like this:

class AppStoreController < ApplicationController

  def get_app
    .
    .
    .
    redirect_path_string = "address_book_path"
    redirect_to redirect_path_string
  end

end

(The redirect_path_string will be constructed using available variables in the controller, but I wanted to abstract out that detail for this question.)

When I do this, I get "The connection was reset" in my browser.

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2915

Answers (1)

Yosep Kim
Yosep Kim

Reputation: 2941

You need to supply a fully qualified URL in order to use a string against redirect_to. Rails utilize a convention to generate a URL from *_path, in this case 'address_book_path'. The following is some examples of what you can do with redirect_to. For more info, go to http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Base/redirect_to 

redirect_to :action => "show", :id => 5
redirect_to post
redirect_to "http://www.rubyonrails.org"
redirect_to "/images/screenshot.jpg"
redirect_to articles_url
redirect_to :back

Upvotes: 7

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