Question

i’ve got a site, which has a login system.

here’s my scenario:

• user is not logged in
• fills in a form to submit data
• before the create action, i check if the user is logged in.
• if the user is not logged in, they are prompted to sign up and log in..
• upon sign up / login the form is submitted and the form data saved without prompting the user to save it again.

In order to do this, I need to use a redirect_to, specify the controller and action, however, this requires a POST, and I don’t believe you can post variables on a redirect.

any ideas of a work around, which would keep the current user flow?

Answer 1

Some options you might want to try:

• Perform the user registration using AJAX, so you never have to leave the page and won’t need a redirect
• Store the form data to a ‘temporary’ user account, then update the account to ‘real’ with the user registration info. You may want to occasionally clean out old ‘temporary user’ data that never completed the registration.
• Convert the form data to serialized form and pass it along with the redirect as a url parameter (only works for a guaranteed small amount of data)
• Store the form data in the session (last resort, only use if your traffic will remain relatively low, as you may end up running into scalability issues)