Rails - Apr 2006 - Access To Referring Controller

I have a controller, that when it is finished doing it''s thing, should 
always redirect back to the controller that called it.  Is there any 
built-in way to access who the referring controller was?

For example

A controller calls ControllerB

ControllerB does it''s thing and should be able to redirect back to the 
previous controller, whether it is ControllerA or ControllerC, without 
know who it was.

Is there any default way to do this?  Seems like variable with the 
referring controller and action would be pretty handy.


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On 4/26/06, Justin Pease <public@nuance9.com>
wrote:
> I have a controller, that when it is finished doing it''s thing,
should
> always redirect back to the controller that called it.  Is there any
> built-in way to access who the referring controller was?
>
> For example
>
> A controller calls ControllerB
>
> ControllerB does it''s thing and should be able to redirect back to
the
> previous controller, whether it is ControllerA or ControllerC, without
> know who it was.
>
> Is there any default way to do this?  Seems like variable with the
> referring controller and action would be pretty handy.
>
>
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