# How can I forward to different pages for different account **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 25, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-forward-to-different-pages-for-different-account/163806 "2009-03-25T02:23:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b9bd4f/32.png) [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-forward-to-different-pages-for-different-account/163806/1 "2009-03-25T02:23:36Z")
My web site has a login feature. What I want to do is to design different page for different account. But in an action, I couldn’t use redirect\_to more than one time. I am looking for a way like this: if account == “admin” redirect\_to … else redirect\_to … … ---
**Author:** ![youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b9bd4f/32.png) [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-forward-to-different-pages-for-different-account/163806/2 "2009-03-25T07:57:50Z")
On 25 Mar., 02:23, Zhao Yi [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My web site has a login feature. What I want to do is to design > different page for different account. But in an action, I couldn’t use > redirect\_to more than one time. I am looking for a way like this: > > if account == “admin” > redirect\_to … > else > redirect\_to … > … That is because Rails only allows to do a single redirect or render per action. You can get around this by adding “and return” after the first redirect to prevent the rest of the code to get evaluated. if account == “admin” redirect\_to some\_page\_path and return else redirect\_to some\_other\_page\_path end But do you really get an error when trying to do more than one redirect, when it’s inside an if/else statement? The “else” part should really not get evaluated if account == “admin”… – Best regards, David K. [http://twitter.com/rubyguy](http://twitter.com/rubyguy) ---
**Author:** ![youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b9bd4f/32.png) [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-forward-to-different-pages-for-different-account/163806/3 "2009-03-25T16:33:11Z")
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Zhao Yi [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My web site has a login feature. What I want to do is to design > different page for different account. But in an action, I couldn’t use > redirect\_to more than one time. I am looking for a way like this: > > if account == “admin” > redirect\_to … Add “return false” here. > else > redirect\_to … and here too. You have to make sure you only redirect once, returning false after the initial redirect will ensure this. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b9bd4f/32.png) [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-forward-to-different-pages-for-different-account/163806/4 "2009-03-28T04:32:00Z")
Hello. The problem with redirect\_to is that it is counter-intuitive. It seems to say, when the code gets here I am going somewhere and never return. That is not the case. It is just like any other method call, you call it and it returns and then your code after the redirect\_to keeps getting executed. That is the reason you should use return, as the rest of the posts suggest. Good luck. Pepe