One thing I've encountered a lot within application development is the need for a global "back link". Yes, I know you can use javascript, but I am looking for a more elegant approach.... accomplished using the rails framework. The scenario is... I can arrive at the same page from various origins within my application. But I would like to be able to easily redirect the user back the exact page they came from ... or if an "edit/update" occurred, I could perform the save and return the user back appropriately. Has anyone seen/implemented such a solution before??
One thing I've encountered a lot within application development is the need for a global "back link". Yes, I know you can use javascript, but I am looking for a more elegant approach.... accomplished using the rails framework. The scenario is... I can arrive at the same page from various origins within my application. But I would like to be able to easily redirect the user back the exact page they came from ... or if an "edit/update" occurred, I could perform the save and return the user back appropriately. Has anyone seen/implemented such a solution before??
Well there's redirect_to :back (but if the referrer isn't set that
won't work)
Fred
Thanks, Fred. That will work for 90% of what I need. The other 10% comes from the need to know where the "new/edit" requests came from (list page, etc).