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Paul S.
Paul S.

Reputation: 4492

Pass arguments into redirect_to(@post)

From my Rails controller, in the create method I want to do

redirect_to @post(:notice => "Post successful', :status => "Success!")

and access the parameters in show.html.erb by using <%= notice %> and <%= status %>

But it doesn't work. How can I fix it?

routes.rb file:

Archive::Application.routes.draw do
  resources :posts
  root :to => "Posts#new"
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (2)

adimitri
adimitri

Reputation: 1296

The reason it's probably not working is that you are overriding the HTTP Status Code that is returned as part of the response. This status code, which is set by setting the :status in the redirect_to syntax, is used by the browser to determine it's particular action. You can read more about the different status codes here W3C HTTP Status Codes.

Long story short, in order for a successful redirect to occur, you need to have a 3XX code for the browser to look at the location header in the HTTP response, and load the URL specified there. If you want the redirect to work properly, you can use the following syntax below.

redirect_to @post, :notice => "Post successful"

If for some reason you want to set it manually, you can do it like so:

redirect_to @post, :notice => "Post successful", :status => 301

There are also some symbols you can use in lieu of the numeric status codes, which you can read about in the Rails documentation for redirect_to.

Upvotes: 2

Raghu
Raghu

Reputation: 2563

Did you try using:

redirect_to post_path , :notice => "Post successful", :status => "Success!"

Upvotes: 0

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