I am able to redirect all (invalid) urls using this line at the end of the routes file:
match '*a' => redirect('/')
I'd like to do the redirect and pass on an alert message in routes.rb
.
Something like (the syntax is wrong here):
match '*a' => redirect('/'), :alert => "aaargh, you don't want to go to #{params[:a]}"
Is it possible to do this?
If I were doing this in a view/controller, I could use redirect_to
and pass on a flash message on the redirected page (see examples in redirecting in the docs). Creating a new controller method and redirecting there would work, but it seems inelegant... is it the recommended way?
A slight tweaking of Jun's answer allowed me to do this:
match '*a' => redirect { |p, req| req.flash[:error] = "aaargh, you don't want to go to #{p[:a]}"; '/' }
Which redirects invalid pages to '/'
along with the desired (dynamic) message.
If you go to www.your_website/a_bad_place
this passes the message on '/'
:
aaargh, you don't want to go to a_bad_place
.
You can grab the entire offending (invalid) url by using:
#{req.env["HTTP_HOST"]}#{req.env["REQUEST_PATH"]}
and display it with this:
match '*a' => redirect { |p, req| req.flash[:error] = "aaargh, you don't want to go to #{req.env["HTTP_HOST"]}#{req.env["REQUEST_PATH"]}"; '/' }
and you'll see:
aaargh, you don't want to go to www.yourwebsite/a_bad_place
The best I can do is:
match 'PATH' => redirect { |p, req| req.flash[:alert] = "MESSAGE"; '/' }