On 28 Jan 2009, at 10:30, Ricky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I was wondering what the purpose of wrapping a redirect_to in a
> format.html block is. I get why you'd want to do this with a render,
> but if you're redirecting the browser to another URL, what's the
> point? As I understand it, when redirect_to is called, Rails sends a
> 302 back to the browser,
It might not be a browser. Eg with a create action you would typically
redirect browsers to the show action, but the XML api probably
wouldn't do that.
Fred
> so I'm having trouble understanding why
> format plays any part in this. No biggie, just need some clarification
> on what's actually happening.
>
> Cheers,
> Ricky
> >
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