Rails redirect without using redirect_to

Question

Rails redirect_to method performs some validations on the URI (I believe uses URI.parse) and will throw errors if it contains invalid characters that are un-escaped or simply a malformed uri.

I would really like to implement my own redirect_to method which will simply redirect to any string I give it to, and render a status code of 302.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Appreciate any help or suggestions

Answer 1

Just use head method in controller:

# action method def create head 302, :location => "http://www.google.com" end