how to refresh the entire page from link_to_remote (RJS) ?

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I have some RJS functionality for user login. If successful I want to refresh the entire page to reflect the new situation, but if I use redirect_to only the target (small) div get replaced with the entire page, not entire page.

Any idea?

Thanks, AD

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That’s because you acutally need the client to request the change of location. This is done with javascript by using the document.location property.

Rails has a helper for it though. You use it in your RJS template like

page.redirect_to some_url

Docs at

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/JavaScriptGenerator/GeneratorMethods.html

HTH

Daniel

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Works great, thanks again.