Question

Is there a way in rails/ruby to simplify my routing code to be elegant like:

redirect_to user.role + _url

This way if the user is an admin they will be routed to the admin page so on so forth for other user types…

Answer 1

Sure!

redirect_to send("#{user.role}_url")

in ruby, the send will execute the method on the receiver, and that’s exactly what you want. Usually, that would look like:

@receiver_object.send(:admin_url)

But the url-helpers work in the global namespace, so you can send to global and have it work.

Easy way to test: Add this to a controller and watch it redirect you home:

redirect_to send("root_path")