I have two rails application. On clicking a link on Application 1's index.html.rb page I wish to do some processing like retreiving info about the selected record from DB. and then make a call to a different rails application. Do I need to write code in my view using helper functions or I can do this in controller. I wish to do this in controller.. as it will mean a cleaner code in view. Is there some dispatch mechanism available in Rails controller.
What exactly does "make a call to a different rails application" mean?
Sharagoz -- wrote:
What exactly does "make a call to a different rails application" mean?
For example I wish to call www.google.com with some parameters from my rails application then what should I do. I am firing some soap requests to get those input parameters for google. Hence I need to write some code in my controller. Something like I am calling show function of scaffold generated project and there I am calling google.com iso default show.html created by scaffold
Then you can use 'net/http' to send a regular http request, like so:
require 'net/http'
connection = Net::HTTP.new("www.google.com") response = "" connection.start do |http| req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/#hl=en&source=hp&q=ruby+on+rails&fp=c26c79a56c95bda8") response = http.request(req) end #do something with response
This can of course be put in the controller, but also the model if that suits you better.
Sharagoz -- wrote:
Then you can use 'net/http' to send a regular http request, like so:
require 'net/http'
connection = Net::HTTP.new("www.google.com") response = "" connection.start do |http| req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/#hl=en&source=hp&q=ruby+on+rails&fp=c26c79a56c95bda8") response = http.request(req) end #do something with response
This can of course be put in the controller, but also the model if that suits you better.
How can I open the page in a new browser.
Prashant Thakur wrote:
Sharagoz -- wrote:
Then you can use 'net/http' to send a regular http request, like so:
require 'net/http'
connection = Net::HTTP.new("www.google.com") response = "" connection.start do |http| req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/#hl=en&source=hp&q=ruby+on+rails&fp=c26c79a56c95bda8") response = http.request(req) end #do something with response
This can of course be put in the controller, but also the model if that suits you better.
How can I open the page in a new browser.
Basically I wish to open the 2nd page by specifying its url and parameters in a different window by clicking a link in first application this link will call the controller function where soap requests will be sent to server and based on that reponse I open a new website with parameters.
I see. Can't you just put :popup => true on the link in the view, and then use a redirect_to in the controller?
Sharagoz -- wrote:
I see. Can't you just put :popup => true on the link in the view, and then use a redirect_to in the controller?
Thanks. The solution works as it opens the required page.