# Asp response.redirect in RoR?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asp-response-redirect-in-ror/147688>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 4, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asp-response-redirect-in-ror/147688 "2008-09-04T09:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![drlelon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@drlelon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/drlelon)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asp-response-redirect-in-ror/147688/1 "2008-09-04T09:27:32Z")

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Hi Folks

I am new to Ruby on rails, coming from Asp classic… Yap… Guess its  
time to get up to date.

Can anyone please point me in the right direction? I’ve currently  
setup an sms gateway which works through http gets and posts. My asp  
file uses response.redirect to trigger the sms gateway.

I am developing my clients new webpage on RoR, and i’m not sure what  
the equivalent would be.

Say I wanted my controller to call:  
[http://sendthatsms/yay?message=thisisthemessage](http://sendthatsms/yay?message=thisisthemessage)

without redirecting the user with the call.

The closest i’ve looked into atm, is the “redirect\_to” method.

Thx in advance.

David

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**Author:** ![drlelon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@drlelon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/drlelon)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asp-response-redirect-in-ror/147688/2 "2008-09-04T14:18:13Z")

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If all you want to do is send out a controller request but not actually  
send the user there, it sounds like you just want to send a POST request  
to that url. May I recommend looking into Net/HTTP or if you prefer  
[http://simplehttp.rubyforge.org/](http://simplehttp.rubyforge.org/)

Using simple http, you could send the request as so:

SimpleHttp.post(“[http://sendthatsms/yay](http://sendthatsms/yay)”, “message”=\>“thisisthemessage”)

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**Author:** ![drlelon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@drlelon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/drlelon)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asp-response-redirect-in-ror/147688/3 "2008-09-06T13:30:04Z")

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Thank you very much, ill be looking into this.

It seems to be exactly what I need.

On Sep 4, 2:18 pm, Nathan E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)