Question

Is it possible to redirect to different location in controller during ajax processing? I mean that I send an AJAX request but during its processing in controller I find out that I want to cancel the ajax request and redirect to completely different location. I’m using this in my customer form. It works like this: someone clicks create button on my form, it checks attributes of form via ajax, if they are wrong it returns errors otherwise it redirects to new customer.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I’ve found something much more better so here’s the code that you need to add to application_controller:

def redirect_to(options = {}, response_status = {})
  if request.xhr?
    render(:update) { |page| page.redirect_to(options) }
  else
    super(options, response_status)
  end 
end

and then in action use standard redirect_to