Question

When I create a user in my database, it also creates a unique identifier string.

In my routes, I have:

match '/users/:unique_identifer', :to => 'users#show'

This part is working fine. When I go to /users/xyz, it brings me to the show action for the appropriate user.

However, when I try to update the user record, it redirect me back to /users/SOMENUMBER where SOMENUMBER is the user’s ID. This causes an error since the show action in the controller has:

def show
    @user = User.find_by_unique_identifier(params[:unique_identifer])
end

In other words, the show action is now only looking up the user by their unique identifier and not the user id.

The update action is as follows:

def update
    @user = User.find_by_unique_identifier(params[:unique_identifer])
    if @user == current_user && @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
      redirect_to @user
    else
      redirect_to @user
    end
 end

How do I get the update action to redirect to the user’s show action but with the appropriate link (/users/unique_identifier) instead of /users/ID?

Answer 1

Try this

redirect_to user_path(@user.unique_identifer)

or

redirect_to :action => :show, :unique_identifer => @user.unique_identifer