Question

Pardon the very basic question, but I’m not a Ruby programmer and I need to understand a line of Ruby code:

redirect to('/')

redirect is from Sinatra and I understand what it does, but ‘to’ is such a common word that however I try to Google this function, I can’t find it. Following modules are imported:

require 'cgi'
require 'sinatra'
require 'gollum'
require 'mustache/sinatra'
require 'useragent'
require 'stringex'

And in case it is needed, the whole file or some shorter one that I managed to find.

Answer 1

The method is Sinatra::Helpers#uri, and it is aliased (also available) as url and to. It creates an absolute url based on given arguments.

So, nothing but a readable method name provided by Sinatra.