Summary
I propose augmenting ActionDispatch::Routing::Redirection#redirect so it can accept a symbolic status:
get '/everyone', to: redirect('/users', status: :found)
in addition to the current numeric HTTP status:
get '/everyone', to: redirect('/users', status: 302)
Precedent
ActionController::Redirecting#redirect_to accepts a status option, which takes an HTTP code as a number or a symbol. For example:
redirect_to(other_url, status: 204)
# or, equivalently:
redirect_to(other_url, status: :no_content)
The same isn’t true of ActionDispatch::Routing::Redirection#redirect. I would love to add symbol support to the latter for consistency.
