returning to a view after completing an action

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Newbie question

Hi there I have links that goes to my edit address form in several views. Does RoR have any clever helpers/ways to return my user to the originating view when they have finished with the edit form ??? or do need to roll my own

Thanks

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try

redirect_to :back

upon a successful save

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Hi Justin,

macarthy wrote:

Does RoR have any clever helpers/ways to return my user to the originating view when they have finished with the edit form ???

redirect_to :back

From the doc on the redirect_to method at api.rubyforge.org :back: Back to the page that issued the request. Useful for forms that are triggered from multiple places. Short-hand for redirect_to(request.env["HTTP_REFERER"])

hth, Bill