Redirect_to with params for a nested resource?

Rails
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Hello out there!
I am developing an app that includes a simple forum system, and am
using a nested resource there:

resources :forums do
resources :topics
end

So I get URLs like /forums/3/topics/2. Now I, for sure, also got a
Post model, controller, etc., and I want this controller to redirect
to the topic which was posted to, which will work fine with:

redirect_to [@topic.forum, @topic]

But I want to pass a params[:page] variable to use with the
will_paginate gem, so it redirects to the right page of the new post,
not just to the first page of the topic as of default. (I wrote a
small helper method there to find out the right page for a post)

So I tried this:

redirect_to [@topic.forum, @topic], :page => find_topic_page(@post)

And I neither get a ?page=1 GET request in the URL, nor does it show
up in my <%= debug(params) %> stuff. It seems to get lost somewhere in
between.

So my question would be: How can I redirect to a nested resource’s
path and pass a page params variable?

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Thanks in advance!
Simon

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Simon W. wrote in post #1019149:

Hello out there!
I am developing an app that includes a simple forum system, and am
using a nested resource there:

resources :forums do
resources :topics
end

So I get URLs like /forums/3/topics/2. Now I, for sure, also got a
Post model, controller, etc., and I want this controller to redirect
to the topic which was posted to, which will work fine with:

redirect_to [@topic.forum, @topic]

But I want to pass a params[:page] variable to use with the
will_paginate gem, so it redirects to the right page of the new post,
not just to the first page of the topic as of default. (I wrote a
small helper method there to find out the right page for a post)

So I tried this:

redirect_to [@topic.forum, @topic], :page => find_topic_page(@post)

How about:

redirect_to( a_named_route(@topic.forum, @topic),
{ :page => find_topic_page(@post) }
)

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:29 PM, 7stud – [email protected] wrote:

Post model, controller, etc., and I want this controller to redirect

As 7stud pointed out, you might want to resort to using named_routes.
But I
think 7stud’s syntax
is a bit wrong. It should be (using your routes above)

redirect_to forum_topic_path(@topic.forum, @topic, :page =>
find_topic_page(@post))

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

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Jim ruther Nill wrote in post #1019226:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:29 PM, 7stud – [email protected] wrote:

Post model, controller, etc., and I want this controller to redirect

As 7stud pointed out, you might want to resort to using named_routes.
But I
think 7stud’s syntax
is a bit wrong.

Whoops. You’re right.

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Thanks so far guys. Will try this. Currently I’m using a very raw
string concatenation which just appends the page - and the id.

forum_topic_path(@topic.forum, @topic) + “?page=” + find_topic_page(@post) +
“#post-” + @post.id
it is. So well, I’d be glad if I could replace it with the nice and
shiny version… But how to append the # anchor thingy then, is there
some option for that?

Thanks, as said :slight_smile: