Hello,
What's a neat way to redirect_to the create action of a restful resource? Unless the request is POST, you fall through to the index action.
For example: a logged out user submits the following a comment form.
<% form_for @post, posts_path(@topic) -%> <!-- stuff -%> <% end -%>
Next request, the authorization filter detects they are not logged in.
# somewhere a method in application.rb
unless @user.logged_in? session[:redirection] = params redirect_to :action => 'login' and return false end
The logged-out user submits the login form, and the next request the controller logs them in and attempts to perform the action the user was orginally performing - POSTing a comment.
# somewhere in ApplicationController.welcome(user) redirection = session[:redirection] || home_url redirect_to redirection # FAILS
# redirection.inspect => { :controller => 'posts', :action => 'create', :post => { :body => blah ... } }
Because topics and posts are restful resources, the user is redirected to the index action of the posts controller posts, not the create action of the posts controller. This is because the restful route generator is getting a POST request from redirect_to.
What's a neat way round this (as opposed to hacking in a before_filter or rewriting my index action)?
Thanks for looking, Dave
PS I'm on 1.2.5 btw.