Following some code in Agile Web Development book, theres a method to redirect back to the last viewed page using redirect_to(:back), however when I do that it simply returns back to the page it was on.
Whats the best way of getting the desired result to work? Am I doing something wrong? My code:
def update
@user = current_user
if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
flash[:notice] = "Successfully updated profile."
redirect_to(:back)
else
render :action => 'edit'
end
end
Isn't that what it is supposed to do? You are probably on you edit page when you click some sort of "submit" button to update the user attributes. Once this update is done, :back will take you back to the edit page (this is the last viewed page). Isnt that what you want?
If you want to go to the users page the you could do something like this
redirect_to user_path(@user)
I think it's behaving as intended:
:back - Back to the page that issued the request. Useful for forms that are triggered from multiple places.