Rails - Apr 2006 - Back In Time

On a system that I am working on, there are 2 places where you can edit 
answers to questions. After editing, I need to redirect back to the 
place where the user came from. A common problem I am sure, but I 
couldn''t find any info on how other people had handled it.

I came up with a method called ''redirect_back_in_time'' that
redirects
you to a point in history.

I know the edit takes 2 pages to complete so to get back to where the 
user started I know I need to redirect_back_in_time 3.

I wrote this up on my blog http://counterflo.ws and put the code up 
there.

How does this solution compare to what you guys have done? Is this 
better or worse?

Thanks

Gareth

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Gareth Reeves wrote:
> On a system that I am working on, there are 2 places where you can edit 
> answers to questions. After editing, I need to redirect back to the 
> place where the user came from. A common problem I am sure, but I 
> couldn''t find any info on how other people had handled it.
> 
> I came up with a method called ''redirect_back_in_time''
that redirects
> you to a point in history.
> 
> I know the edit takes 2 pages to complete so to get back to where the 
> user started I know I need to redirect_back_in_time 3.
> 
> I wrote this up on my blog http://counterflo.ws and put the code up 
> there.
> 
> How does this solution compare to what you guys have done? Is this 
> better or worse?
I use the params hash rather than the request_uri, but it''s much the 
same idea...

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Alex