Question

I’m trying to redirect to a location based on a param on a submitted form.
If params[:route] = group , I want to redirect to groups_path.
I tried the following method to redirect but obviously enough the groups_path is a variable and not a string. How can I redirect based off the param?

redirect_to "#{params[:route]}s_path"

Edit:
realised I can redirect to the actual path but this doesn’t seem like a very rails way of doing it.

redirect_to "/#{params[:route]}s"

Answer 1

redirect_to send("#{params[:route].pluralize}_path")

But I’d rather write a wrapper-helper returning appropriate url helper based on the params[:route] value. params[:route] could potentially have any value and you may want to rescue in these cases.