Question

I have a model I named User, and I want use two different Views to edit it: the usual edit view and another view I called edit_profile.

I had no problem in creating routing, controller and views: I added edit_profile and update_profile views, and I added on routes.rb the line:

map.resources :users ,:member => {:edit_profile => :get, :update_profile => :put}

The problem is: when I submit the form in edit_profile and some error occur in some input fields, rails reload the edit_path page instead of edit_profile_path page !
This is the form on edit_profile.html.erb

  form_for(:user, @user, :url => {:action => :update_profile}, :html => { :method => :put}  ) do |f|

    f.text_field :description
    f.text_area :description
    f.error_message_on :description

    ....
    ....

    f.submit 'Update profile'

After clicking Update profile, if input errors occur I want to show edit_profile view instead of edit view

Where is the problem ?
Do You have some ideas ?
many thanks

Answer 1

Your controller’s action (the edit action, I assume) will need to know whether it has been reached via the normal edit page or the edit_profile page. You can use a hidden field named, perhaps, profile to post a breadcrumb that will tell it that. By doing this, you can redirect conditionally based on the existence of a profile param.

A cleaner way is to create a new action called edit_profile and extract the editing code to a common method that is called from both edit and edit_profile let the public methods handle any redirects.