Question

I am new to ruby on rails.

Here is my routes.rb

RpxNowExample::Application.routes.draw do

  root :to => "users#index"
  resources :users
end

Normally my functionality is working fine, but I want to make a tweak. I want it to redirect to another view “promptemail” using the same controller calling another action if a condition is true i.e

if(@provider == "Twitter")

     redirect_to :action => :promptemail

end

It should take me to that promptemail view.

Answer 1

You can pass a block to your resources definition to add extra actions outside of the standard:

resources :users do
  match :promptemail, :via => [:get], :on => :member
end

The :via option allows you to restrict on get, post, put etc, the :on parameter will take either :member, or :collection.

:collection will operate on a collection, so similar to the index action, :member will operate on an individual record. As such if you specify your route as :on => :member, you will need to provide an object or id when you generate the route.

More info about adding routes to resources can be found here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#adding-more-restful-actions