Question

I am developing a rails app and have a question.

In my routes.rb:

map.connect 'admin', :controller => "/admin/users", :action => "index"

So when I go to “http://mydomain.com/admin“, it redirects to “http://mydomain.com/admin/users/index“.
However, the address remains as “http://mydomain.com/admin“.
Thus, links in the page are wrong because they are created based on “http://mydomain.com/admin“.

What’s the solution to this problem?

Sam

Answer 1

Your code is not redirecting the browser it’s just setting up /admin and /admin/users to trigger the same action.

You could try:

map.connect 'admin', :controller => "/admin/users", :action => "redirect_to_index"

Then in your controller write:

def redirect_to_index
  redirect_to :action => :index
end

This will send a redirect to the browser, causing it to display the correct URL.

Hopefully there is a better method that only involves routes.rb. This site might be helpful -> redirect-routing-plugin-for-rails