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Jayaram
Jayaram

Reputation: 839

Refresh Same page

I'm working on a project using ruby on rails. I want to refresh the same page when the action is called or redirect to the page where the action is called.

How do i do this ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9360

Answers (2)

phaedryx
phaedryx

Reputation: 2054

Rails has a redirect_to :back. More information here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Redirecting.html

As noted, it is equivalent to redirect_to(request.env["HTTP_REFERER"]) which is "set me back to the page that sent me here."

You could make a controller action that does what you want then redirect_to :back at the end.

Upvotes: 0

Nada Aldahleh
Nada Aldahleh

Reputation: 1308

you can use 'render' to refresh a page, and 'redirect_to' to redirect to a page going through its controller.

if you want to store a page to redirect back to, you can use:

def store_location
 session[:return_to] = request.fullpath
end

def redirect_back_or(default)
  redirect_to(session[:return_to] || default)
  clear_return_to
end

def clear_return_to
  session[:return_to] = nil
end

This is taken from Michael Hartl's book, he uses similar code to redirect to the requested page after the user signs in.

http://railstutorial.org/chapters/updating-showing-and-deleting-users#sec:friendly_forwarding

Upvotes: 4

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