Rendering another Action without changing URL?
- by Michael Stum
I have this code in my Rails 3 controller:
def index
now = Time.now.utc.strftime("%m%d")
redirect_to :action => "show", :id => now
end
def show
begin
@date = Time.parse("12#{params[:id]}")
dbdate = params[:id]
rescue ArgumentError
@date = Time.now.utc
dbdate = @date.strftime("%m%d")
end
@date = @date.strftime("%B %d")
@events = Event.events_for_date(dbdate)
end
So basically index is just a specialized version of show, hence I want it to execute show, render the show.html.erb view - but I do not want to change the URL like redirect_to does.
I have tried this approach:
def index
now = Time.now.utc.strftime("%m%d")
params[:id] = now
show
render :action => "show"
end
Now, this works, but it just smells badly.
I'm new to Ruby and Rails, so I just wonder if there is something fundamentally wrong or if there is a better way to do this?
