Question

i have a form, on submit i check if the user is logged in, if not, I redirect to the signin page, once they sign in I want to complete the form POST that they were attempting. Any ideas on how to do this?

So far I have attempted storing the request path in a cookie and redirecting back using this path but on redirect it treats it as a GET rather than a POST which is not correct.

def store_location
  session[:return_to] = request.fullpath
end

def redirect_back_or(default)
  redirect_to(session[:return_to] || default)
  clear_return_to
end

Answer 1

One possible workaround is as follows,

Path 1 – user already logged in

• submit form

• save the details

Path 2 – User not logged in

• submit form

• check user logged in (false in this
  case)

• redirect to the signup page

• have hidden fields in the signup page
  to store the earlier form details

• let user signup + add the previous
  for details after you create the user
  account

Note : these hidden fields (to store form1 data) should be optional as otherwise users should not be able to signup directly

HTH

sameera