I am trying to upgrade my rails 2.3.14 app to rails 4 but experiencing some issues.
In my routes.rb I have the following general rules defined after the more specific ones:
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id/:org'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
map.connect ':action/:id', :controller => "home"
so in the rails 4 equivalent I changed these to
get ':controller/:action/:id'
get ':controller/:action/:id/:org'
get ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
get ':action/:id', :controller => "home"
http://localhost:3000/ is still taking me to the default home page, I assume it's because there's no root 'welcome#index' (example from routes.rb file) route but I'm not sure how to achieve that since in my app the home url is defined like so in application_controller.rb
def default_home_url
if @person
'/ticket/list/Open'
elsif request.env["HTTP_REFERER"].include? 'portal'
'/portal'
else
"/"
end
end
The home_controller.rb #index is
def index
redirect_to default_home_url if @person
end
and the way that @person is set is in a function named check_user in the application_controller.rb
def check_user
@person = Person.find(session[:person]) if session[:person]
@admin = (@person and @person.priviledges == 'admin')
end
This function is called when someone logs in and at the top of application_controller.rb.
So, if I go to http://localhost:3000/ticket/list/Open in the rails 4 app I get this error: NoMethodError in TicketController#list undefined method 'include?' for nil:NilClass and the line highlighted is this one:
elsif request.env["HTTP_REFERER"].include? 'portal'
from application_controller.rb, not ticket_controller.rb so I am thoroughly confused about what's going on.
Apologies if anything is unclear, I can provide more information if needed.
update
Managed to get rid of the error by changing that line to
elsif request.env.try(:include?, 'portal')
so the home url is still taking me to the default rails homepage.
