If I understand what you're asking, .... In your controller when you test whether a user is logged-in or not, if they aren't logged in, you'll want to save their current request uri in their session so that you can later redirect them to that orig destination once they've successfully logged in. Something like:
... # the place in your controller where you test logged-in-ness: if not is_user_logged_in session[:pre_login_req_uri] = request.env['REQUEST_URI'] redirect_to(:action=>:login) return end ...
# in your login meth, after the user has successfully logged-in: pre_login_uri = session[:pre_login_req_uri] session[:pre_login_req_uri] = nil if pre_login_req_uri redirect_to(pre_login_req_uri) else redirect_to(:action=>:index) end return ...
Jeff