Possible to create this redirecting route in Rails?

Question

Is it possible to do a redirect in the routes file of a Rails app?

Specifically, I'd like to forward /j/e to /javascripts/embed.js

Right now the only way I can think to do it is to create a j controller with an e method that redirects to that.

score 182 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 28 '22 at 17:08

182

In Rails 4 and above

get '/stories', to: redirect('/posts')

In case you need a named route, you may want to add an explicit as parameter:

get '/stories', to: redirect('/posts'), as: :however_you_want_to_name_it

In Rails 3, you can redirect inside the routes.rb file.

match "/posts/github" => redirect("http://github.com/rails.atom")

edited Jun 28 '22 at 17:08

BinaryButterfly

answered Sep 16 '10 at 21:35

Steven Soroka

9

See [http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#redirection](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#redirection) – user664833 Jul 18 '12 at 03:10
8

Thanks! I also needed to include an id in my redirect. For those that need it /:id/ in the match can be referenced as /%{id}/ in the redirected url... – Doug English Nov 21 '12 at 13:18
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In Rails 4, `get '/stories', to: redirect('/posts')`, as seen in the [RoR Guides](http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#redirection). Note that you don't need to create a view since you're redirecting at the routes level. – Dennis Feb 12 '14 at 16:33
In rails 4.2, using `to:` in `routes.rb` is deprecated. – Augustin Riedinger Nov 13 '15 at 00:10
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@AugustinRiedinger the RoR guide for 4.2.6 says otherwise: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#redirection – Nuri Hodges Mar 09 '16 at 20:21

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 10 '16 at 12:27

Assuming rails version prior to 3.

You can create a new RedirectController or tuck a single function away in an existing controller, to do something like the following:

map.js_embed '/j/e',
    :controller => :redirect_controller,
    :action => :some_function,
    :path => "embed"

Then your function would do this:

def some_function
  if params[:path]
    redirect_to "/javascripts/#{params[:path]}.js"
  end
end

or something for that effect.

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '19 at 23:37

-1

You can make the root path redirect to an external website:

root to: redirect('https://www.lucascaton.com.br/en')

answered May 25 '19 at 23:37

Lucas Caton

3 Answers3