Question

In my simple Rails 3 application I have a has_one, has_many relationship between two models. I am passing the id of the ‘owner’ to the child upon creation:

Animal Model

has_many :claims, :foreign_key => 'animal_id'
has_many :conditions, :foreign_key => 'animal_id'

Claim Model

has_one :animal, :foreign_key => 'PVID'
has_many :payments, :dependent => :destroy

Payment Model

belongs_to :claim

I am passing the animal_id and claim_id to the claim and payment models respectively using hidden forms.

What I would like to do is redirect the user to the parent model upon creation. So, for example:

If the user was creating a new claim, the claim form would automatically have the animal_id inserted. What is the correct way to redirect back to the animals record?

format.html { redirect_to claim_animal_path, notice: 'Claim was successfully created.' }

Any pointers would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Depending on your routes file, the animal_path helper will accept an id for an animal. Something like

format.html { redirect_to animal_path @claim.animal.id, notice: 'Claim was successfully created.' }

would probably work.