Question

Let’s say before a user is allowed to view the creation page of a Model, they are required to accept some terms. The workflow would be like:

User clicks on “create MODEL” -> Brought to a terms page, must accept before moving on -> MODEL creation page

If a user copies the url to the creation page, they should be redirected to the terms page.

What’s the best way of going about this? I was thinking of using the session variable somehow…but I can’t think of a clever enough idea. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can have the following routes:

get 'terms' => 'MODEL#terms'
get 'new' => 'MODEL#terms'
post 'new' => 'MODEL#new'

The “create MODEL” should send a GET request for /terms. Accepting the terms should POST to /new. If the user pasted /new in the URL, he’ll be directed to terms instead.

Alternatively (or additionally), you can have the /terms POST a variable, :terms_accepted => true to the MODEL creation page, and on that page, check if :terms_accepted == true. If not, redirect to the terms page.