Question

I have a filter_before filter that checks to see if a param is true. If it is my app does this. However, the && return seems to be causing some problems. When I take it out, it’ll redirect form every page to the desired countdown page–but then it loops or double renders.

redirect_to :countdown && return if @online == 1

Is there a way to wrap this in an if statement?

Something like:

if current_page(:countdown)
  redirect_to :countdown if @online == 1
end

Answer 1

You’d better exclude the countdown action from your before_filter to avoid infinite loop.

something like:

before_filter :check_countdown, :except => :countdown

That said, what you did is valid:

  redirect_to :countdown and return if @online == 1