Two Quick Questions

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These are 2 basic questions that I'm stuck with:

1. Going ':back' to the referring page I'd like to create a link that allows the user to go to the referring page. I saw this solution: <%= link_to 'Back', @request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] %> But, naturally, this creates a link that is a fresh call to the previous page. This loses the request parameters loses the effect of the query that created the previous page.. (in fact, results in an exception) The other way seems to be javascript: <a href = "javascript:history.back()"> Go back </a> Is this the only practical way?

2. How do I formulate a transaction across two tables? I want to delete a "request" if I can successfully save the "data" - the examples in AWDWR (i think) only talk about transactions on 1 table and specifically say that it's not supported across databases.. but have been unable to determine anything about two tables in the same database...

Thanks Mohit.

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In regards to question 1:

I have run into this problem at times also. You could possibly consider creating a "request cache" if going back is that important to you. Something along these lines, although this code may not be complete or working. It's a concept demonstration.

session[:cache] ||= session[:cache] << params

def back   if session[:cache] && last_params = session[:cache].pop     redirect_to last_params   end end

In regards to question 2, I assume you have some sort of "request" modelled in the database:

if data.save   myrequest.destroy end

Is this what you are referring to?