Question

I’m trying to redirect to a custom view from a controller in my rails app. The following works:

redirect_to :action => 'myaction', :id =>@myobj.id

An I have a controller action named myaction

In my routes.rb file I have

match 'myobjs/:id/myaction' => 'myobjs#myaction'

But I would like to use the more concise syntax of

// this is the line I cannot get to work
redirect_to myaction_path

What is the correct syntax for redirecting to a custom view like this?

Answer 1

There is an :as option you can pass to the match method.

match 'myobjs/:id/myaction' => 'myobjs#myaction', :as => :myaction

This would create helper methods called myaction_path and myaction_url you can use in your controllers and views.

The Rails routing guide is here