I have routes like this:
map.namespace 'prepayments', :path_prefix => '/:locale/prepayments' do |prepayment|
prepayment.root :controller => 'login', :namespace => 'prepayments'
...
end
map.redirect '/', :controller => 'prepayments/login' # this is not working
# I tried also
map.root :controller => 'prepayments/login'
What I would like to get is that after typing: www.example.com it would redirect me to www.example.com/en/prepayments.
Earlier when I used map.root
from above example it just stayed at www.example.com and rendered correct view (but it was without :locale
and it worked good), later I added :locale
to my routes and from this time my view (that uses some form) doesn't work properly. I get error that it can't find corresponding route for form - which is right, because I didn't pass any :locale
.
So, how to redirect root to another page? It will probably need to generate correct path and pass it through http 302. Or/And how to make something like:
map.root :controller => 'prepayments/login', :my_locale => 'en'
EDIT: My rake routes looks like this:
prepayments_root /:locale/prepayments {:controller=>"prepayments/login", :action=>"index"}
prepayments_create /:locale/prepayments/send_email {:method=>:post, :controller=>"prepayments/login", :action=>"send_email"}
prepayments_home /:locale/prepayments/home {:controller=>"prepayments/prepayments", :action=>"home"}
prepayments_save /:locale/prepayments/save {:controller=>"prepayments/prepayments", :action=>"save"}
prepayments_agree /:locale/prepayments/agree {:controller=>"prepayments/prepayments", :action=>"agree"}
prepayments_disagree /:locale/prepayments/disagree {:controller=>"prepayments/login", :action=>"logout"}
prepayments_payment /:locale/prepayments/payment {:controller=>"prepayments/prepayments", :action=>"payment"}
prepayments_payment_email /:locale/prepayments/payment_email {:controller=>"prepayments/prepayments", :action=>"payment_email"}
/:locale/prepayments/:uid {:controller=>"prepayments/login", :action=>"verify"}
redirect / {:controller=>"prepayments/login", :action=>"index"}
EDIT:
I tried doing it in the way Garrett proposed and it worked. I changed routes:
map.redirect '/', :controller => 'prepayments/login', :action => 'welcome'
and added welcome method in controller:
def welcome
redirect_to prepayments_root_path(:locale => 'en')
end
And it works as I wanted (so it changes url in my browser).
The other way is to change routes like this:
map.root :controller => 'prepayments/login', :locale => 'en'
It also works, but it isn't redirecting (it doesn't change url in browser). I'm not sure if there is such option as map.redirect
. I found it in examples on www but I also found plugin that add such functionality.
Thanks for help!
In Rails 3 you can write:
root :to => redirect('/prepayments')
The following page has a good introduction to doing these redirects in Rails 3: http://www.railsdispatch.com/posts/rails-routing