A question about redirect_to

Rails
1

Hello guys, sorry for this very newbie question, but I don’t understand
what’s happening.

I got a scaffolded model named User, it has an index action in his own
controller (courtesy of “script/generate scaffold”). This action looks
like
this:
def index
list
render :action => ‘list’
end

So from here what I see this method does is:

  1. Call the list action to set a pair of variables (it’s not relevant
    here).
  2. Render the view for the list action.

The URL doesn’t change from http://localhost:3000/users to anything
else, it
stays the same.

My doubt is: Why something like this doesn’t work?
def index
redirect_to :list # I just want to go to the list action in case no
action
is specified.
end

I thought that would just redirect me to the
http://localhost:3000/users/list. But, I get the following error if I
put
the code above instead of what was there originally (look at first code
sample):
“stack level too deep”

Shouldn’t the redirect_to just take me to the right URL?
In this case if I type this:
http://localhost:3000/clients

I would expect it to take me to:
http://localhost:3000/clients/list

And since that isn’t the case I would appreciate if someone could
explain to
me how is it really working. :wink:

Best regards,
Adrián.

2

your syntax of redirect_to was wrong, try this:

def index
redirect_to :action => “list”
end

Adrián De la Cruz schrieb:

3

OMG, sorry for that :S