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Rails beginner

Reputation: 14504

Rails help creating redirecting action and route

I am trying to create a route and a action that redirects the params.

Example when a user visits: www.mywebsite.com/photographer/flv/:ID/:filename

I want the user to be redirected to: www.someotherwebsite.com/photographer/flv/:ID/:filename

I have tried to accomplish with this solution without luck:

My controller URL:

def videore
redirect_to www.whateverwebsite.com + params[:all] 
end

And in routes:

match '/photographer/flv/:ID/:filename' => 'URL#videore'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 101

Answers (2)

emrass
emrass

Reputation: 6444

From the Ruby on Rails Guide:

match "/stories/:name" => redirect("/posts/%{name}")

In all of these cases, if you don’t provide the leading host (http://www.example.com), Rails will take those details from the current request.

So redirecting to another TLD should work like this (no action in your controller required):

match '/photographer/flv/:ID/:filename' => redirect("http://www.someotherwebsite.com/photographer/flv/%{ID}/%{filename}")

Upvotes: 0

PlankTon
PlankTon

Reputation: 12605

This should do it:

In your controller action:

def videore
  redirect_to "http://www.whateverwebsite.com/photographer/flv/#{params[:id]}/#{params[:filename]}"
end

And in routes:

match '/photographer/flv/:id/:filename' => 'url#videore'

This assumes, of course, that 'url' is the name of your controller

Upvotes: 1

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