I have a form for creating an object in a pop up window. When the new object has been submitted, I need to update the parent window, the one that created the pop up window. I do it by a redirect to the action that created the parent window. This is done in the action create (that is used to create the new object) .... if @research_notation.save redirect_to :action => :show, :controller => :person_cards, :id=>Person.current.id However, nothing happens, according to a debug print of the new variable, although the log writes out the redirect as Redirected to http://localhost:3000/person_cards/214 When I manually use the browsers relaod function everything works as expected Maybe I have misunderstand the direct command. My understanding was that a redirect to :action ''show'' is the same as calling the action or method ''show'' Or what dows redirect mean? Is thre any other ways to solve my problem of trying to reload the parent window Any help would be very much appreciated