redirect without changing url

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Hi,    Lets assume we have an url, /controller1/action1.    In the before filter, under certain conditions, I want to route it to /controller2/action2. without changing the url at the client side ie I donot want to use redirect. Please help.

Regards, Pankaj

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I would suggest using render instead of redirect.

<%= render :partial => "controller2/action2" %>

Checkout this page for more info: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Partials.html

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class FooController < ApplicationController   before_filter :maybe_redirect

  protected

   def maybe_redirect       redirect_to your_url       false    end end

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Hey

You can do Controller2.new.action2, but that's not quite beautiful .. more over what your action2 will do after finish ? redirect ? render ?

Regards

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You really need to give us more information to help. If you want just the layout from the other action, you can use render. However, render will not execute the code from the controller's action method; it will only render the template. If you want to execute the code and truly redirect, I think you are stuck changing the url. Why do you need to do this? Let us know a little more of the situation and we might be able to give you a better solution.

Good luck,

Andrew

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thanks for your replies,

I want to execute the new action as well as render the corresponding view, without changing the url. It is a case of dynamic routing.

Following is the scenario: Every user can have their profile on the website, whose url is www.xyz.com/profileid Additionally there would be an option for the user to add a domain to point to their profile. So for example, my profile on the website is www.xyz.com/pankaj If I own a domain www.pankaj.com, and point it to www.xyz.com, then www.pankaj.com should take me to the page www.xyz.com/pankaj without changing the url. In the before filter function, I check if the url is not xyz.com, then it is mapped to the corresponding user, and then I need to go to the corresponding controller and action.

Regards, Pankaj

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can metal or rack be helpful in this?

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can metal or rack be helpful in this?