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Albert Català
Albert Català

Reputation: 2044

how use url_for with a redirected route in Rails

I have this in routes.rb

  match '/external_login' => 'admin#external_login', :as => :external_login, :via => [:get,:post]

And I want to generate a friendly url (for my spanish public) "proveedores"

so I have added in routes.rb:

get '/proveedores', to: redirect('/external_login')

To use a link like http.//...n/proveedores

but now I need to use url_for helper that builds http.//...n/proveedores. But How?

url_for (controller: "admin", action: "external_login") don't return "/proveedores" reuturn "/external_login" instead

And if I put in routes.rb 

  match '/proveedores' => 'admin#external_login', :as => :external_login, :via => [:get,:post]

It crash when type in browser http:...localhost:3000/proveedores

Routing Error
No route matches [GET] "/external_login"

A solution, but I think I'm missing somethig

In routes, two lines:

  match '/proveedores', to: 'admin#external_login', :as => :external_login, :via => [:get,:post]
  get '/external_login', to: "admin#external_login"

And now I can do this:

2.0.0-p451 :003 > url_for(controller: "admin", action: "external_login")
 => "http://10.210.nn.nnn:3000/proveedores"

Can somebody explain, if this is correct, or maybe there is a simpler solution

Thanks

Thanks to Ashutosh Tiwari, the solution is simpler than it looks. Using the _url helper instead of url_for(....

routes.rb:

 match '/external_login', to: 'admin#external_login', :as => :external_login, :via => [:get,:post]
  get '/proveedores', to: redirect('/external_login')

and using proveedores_url i get the full url: "http://10.210.nn.nnn:3000/proveedores"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 448

Answers (1)

Ashutosh Tiwari
Ashutosh Tiwari

Reputation: 998

Routes generates for two type of helpers for you, first one is routes_name_path and another is routes_name_url.

_url helper provides you the absolute path while _path helper provides relative path.

You can use _url helper method instead of url_for that will be something like admin_proveedores_url.

Upvotes: 2

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