How to navigate to an external URL from a controller

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm using restful_authentication plugin for my webapp. After everything is setup properly, the user signup, login and logout can work without any problem. Now, I don't know how an external URL, such as http://www.my-external-url.com, can be navigated to the moment a user has successfully login.

For example, when I login successfully at http://localhost:3000/login, it is automatically routed to the the Rails Welcome Aboard page. I don't want that to happen. I want it to go to http://www.my-external-url.com.

Does anyone know how to do that? Appreciate if anyone can help.

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config/routes.rb. There are a ton of good resources out there about routing in Rails in case you don't know much about how they work.

Tom

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The resources are all about routing internally. If you know any resources that can help me, please advise. I'm desperate..haha

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redirect_to 'http://my-external-site.com'

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Thank you, Scott. It works! Just FYI, it's actually redirect_to("http://my-external-site.com")

Scott wrote:

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Actually... it's both ways. The parenthesis aren't required in ruby when calling methods.

Robby