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Hello, There is an link_to option or an helper that generate a link like : <a href="javascript:history.back()">Back</a> Thanks

How could I make it so that links on my page could link to a controllers action, but if the user manually entered the url, it would redirect them back to the main page? Is this possible? Thank you, -Ben Lisbakken -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello. I''ve been trying this out for the past two days and I can''t seem to get it. I''m going to have a page where you can upload x amount of images at once. Lets say 10 images need to be uploaded, all with a caption. I''d like to have a browse button to choose the file, then the caption. Now, if I put 10 of them in one form, fill them all out and submit, I get

Howdy, I''m using Apache 2.2 + Mongrel with great success, using the sample configs from the Mongrel site. We have some MP3s on the site and recently someone has been stealing them and basically leaching them from the site, linking to them from an off-site location. I''ve been trying to modify my Apache conf to check the referrer and adjust accordingly as below but no

I have a partial, it''s a shopping cart display, it''s designed to appear on several different pages of my site. One of the buttons on the shopping cart empties the cart, and then I want the calling page to redisplay. In other words, the cart controller needs to return the visitor to the same page -- however since the cart could appear on any given page, this has to be

Are there any best practices for implementing a back/cancel/return button... even when the page you want to return people too is 2 pages back (when people submit form and then want to return)? Thanks :-) Your Friend, John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering

Hi all: I can''t make redirect_to to unlock the current iframe using {:TARGET => "_top"}. It always stays in the current frame. I checked the redirect_to code, it seems the method does not use "target". here is the source code of redirect_to from ActionController::Base def redirect_to(options = {}, *parameters_for_method_reference) #:doc: 753: case options

Hi! I''m making a simple gallery, which uses simple javascript for changing ''src'' attrbiute of ''img'' element. How to wait for an image to be downloaded completely before trying to display it and while browser downloads this image display a spinner gif or ''please wait'' message etc.? Something like this:

hey guys, Does anyone know why the french letter "?" is displayed as a question mark "?" inside an <h1> tag ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi! Assume that there are 2 controllers: user and admin. Is it possible to remove ''user'' from the url? So i.e. if you''re trying to login, you won''t access www.server.com/user/login but www.server.com/login Is it possible to do something like this with groups of controllers (if user was just the name of a group of controllers). -- Posted via

Hello I have a rails 3 app and I am trying to implement the redirect back action at access denied for cancan. If I try this in my application_controller: rescue_from CanCan::AccessDenied do |exception| redirect_to :back end It gives the following error: No HTTP_REFERER was set in the request to this action, so redirect_to :back could not be called successfully. If this is a test, make sure

Hi! I''ve got a list of project on the main page and if one of them is selected i render a partial using ajax with data of selected project. How to create links to next/previous project using pagination? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey, Is is possible to get the full URL (''http://www.sender-domain.com/links/list.html'') from where a user was sent to my site (www.my-domain.com/controller/action) e.g. by clicking on a link? (I read about something called a ''request'' object, I don''t know what it is or does, is that what I''m looking for? I''m very new to Rails

Hello List, If I have a module and the address looks like / admin/:controller/:action and I want to create a link to /:controller/:action, how do I have to specify that in a ''link_to'' or in a ''redirect :controller =>'' statement. It doesn''t strip the /admin part from it, which makes sense, but I need to go to a controller in the root. TIA,

Hello, I try this : redirect_to :action => ''infos'' , :id => params[:id] , :show => "comments#a" i want this : .../infos/15?show=comments#a but I have this : .../infos/15?show=comments%23a Someone could tell me how generate an anchor link ? Thanks

Hello, we want to read the referer URL from the HTTP headers, in order to be able to track where someone is coming from, in a Rails application. As I can see in the source, Mongrel doesn''t even parse the HTTP_REFERER field from HTTP requests. This would make a useful feature, I guess. Apart from that, Mongrel is (IMHO) simply the best solution for deploying Rails - keep on going!

Hi There I started using Rails recently, and I see it''s very easy for URLs that have up to 3 levels: /:controller/:action/:id But what do you do when you need more than 3? For example, my current project should have an "admin" interface. Admin has several sub-interfaces, for example a "users" interface. And the admin/users interface has several actions, e.g.

Hello all! I have two views (list_1 and list_2) that show a list of users in two different ways. In the views for these actions there is a link to edit a specific user properties (edit_user). That works fine, except that when I change the user I want to go back to the view that originated the request and not to the default list (list_1). Can anyone help me? Best regards, Hugo -- Posted via

Admin Controller - def show @wizard = Wizard.find(params[:id]) end View - <td><%= link_to ''Show'', :action => ''show'', :id => wizard %></td> URL - http://localhost:3000/admin/show/1 I want user_name (one of the columns in the database) instead of the id to show For example:

I am trying to allow users to reply through comments by allowing users to click a reply link next to the parent comment. It will send in a parameter to the ''new'' comment view, like so: | <%= link_to "Reply", new_comment_path(:in_reply_to => comment.id) %> The form will use the :in_reply_to parameter in order to save that id as the parent id, like so: