On Mar 18, 10:29 pm, Dave L <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, thats what I was going to do in the beginning, but the problem
> is how to define the variable for that if else statement. This is for
> a login, so for a certain page I was thinking about inserting a
> partial into the login popup form that would contain a hidden field of
> that id of the user that is being viewed. Then, in my authenticate
> action, I would check if there was a value in this field and if so,
> route to the users profiles whose id was in the hidden field and if
> there is no value, then just route to their profile. Does this work?
> Or is there a better way?
>
Don't see why it wouldn't work.
Fred
> I also thought about using sessions to store the user id of the user
> who is being viewed, but i would have to clear this session if the
> popup was closed and not submitted, and im just not sure how to do
> that.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> On Mar 18, 3:07 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 18, 8:51 pm, Dave L <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. I am having some trouble
> > > calling this custom method within an ajax call though. I am able to
> > > call page.redirect_to user_path(user) but when I try the following:
>
> > > respond_to do |format|
> > > format.js do
> > > render :update do |page|
> > > page.redirect_back_or_default(user_path
> > > (logged_in_user)) #redirect_to user_path(logged_in_user) works
> > > end
> > > end
> > > end
>
> > > I get an error saying redirect_back_or_default is not defined. I have
> > > defined this within my LoginSystem module and have included this in
> > > the application file so it should be able to find it. Is there
> > > anything special I need to do to use it with RJS?
>
> > You'd have to define it on the javascript generator object that gets
> > yielded to you. You're better off doing
>
> > if ...
> > page.redirect_to ...
> > else
> > page.redirect_to ...
> > end
>
> > > On Mar 16, 11:04 pm, saideep annadatha <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I think you are looking for something like this:
>
> > > > By using the filters to check if the user is logged in or not and
> > > > showing
> > > > him the login partial. Now in the controller, if the user is
> > > > successfully
> > > > logged in try calling a method similar to the following:
>
> > > > redirect_back_or_default('/')
>
> > > > def redirect_back_or_default(default)
> > > > session[:return_to] ? redirect_to_url(session[:return_to]) :
> > > > redirect_to(default)
> > > > session[:return_to] = nil
> > > > end
>
> > > > The above is extracted from the restful_authentication plugin.
> > > > There the url is getting stored in the session[:return_to] where the
> > > > user is
> > > > redirected once authenticated.
>
> > > > Please correct me if wrong.
>
> > > > --
> > > > Thank You,
> > > > Saideep Annadatha
>
> > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:37 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I have a situation where I need my ajaxed login popup to route to a
> > > > > different page than the default route. Specifically this situation is
> > > > > if they are trying to message a user and are not signed in, I want to
> > > > > show the login, and then route them to the profile that they were
> > > > > viewing and not make them have to find it again. The way I was
> > > > > thinking about doing it is to use a partial to add a hidden field that
> > > > > would contain the id of the user that is being viewed and use this id
> > > > > to render that profile instead of routing to the logged in users
> > > > > profile.
>
> > > > > The thing is that the partial is going to look the same as the regular
> > > > > which is not good DRY policy, but I dont know how else to get the user
> > > > > id for the hidden field into the login popup. Something like:
>
> > > > > page.replace_html "login", :partial => 'layouts/
> > > > > login_for_diff_route', :locals => {:profile_id => @profile_id}
>
> > > > > I cant really think of any other way to do it. Looking for any
> > > > > suggestions/advice/insights. Thanks.
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