Question

I’m not sure what to do here. I have two scaffolds: Groups and Users. In two different Group views I’m listing group users and calling the Destroy method of the users_controller.

Since a 2nd view is now calling the destroy action, I need some way of detecting what view called the Destroy action because I need a different redirect and custom flash notice for each of the two group views.

Is there a simple way of solving this, or would the solution be something like making a copy of the Destroy method and mapping a new route for it?

-thanks!

edit: maybe this is a stupid idea, but I was thinking… For the two involved views, what if I stored their view names in the session when the views are generated (as a flag for the Destroy action to know which view to redirect to and what custom flash notice to send back)?

Answer 1

Pass the parameter with the links and check those parameters in your action.

Like ,

link_to "Delete", :controller => "groups", :action => "destroy", :pass_par => "view1"

link_to "Delete", :controller => "groups", :action => "destroy", :pass_par => "view2"

Controller:

def destroy
  if params[:pass_par] == "view1"
    redirect_to view1 
  else
    redirect_to view2
  end
end