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Andy
Andy

Reputation: 751

implement mobile views for a rails app

I want to set it up in a way that when a mobile phone uses my website, it will be redirected to a url with 'm' subdomain, but i will be using the same controllers, but just different views. I just need a general road map of how to implement something like that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (1)

Usman Khan
Usman Khan

Reputation: 388

For this you need to add a before filter in the application controller like

before_filter :detect_mobile_device

#Checking against the user agent
def detect_mobile_device       
   if request.user_agent =~ /Mobile|webOS/
     redirect_to m.****.com
   end
end

Then onwards you can modify and utilize it to render different views, you can also use 

 def is_mobile_device?   
   return request.user_agent =~ /Mobile|webOS/
 end

For some browsers it might not work so you can use this gem

gem 'mobile-fu'

Upvotes: 1

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