What is the best way to route a static controller in Rails?
- by yuval
I have a static_controller that is in charge of all the static pages in the site and works as follows in routes.rb:
map.connect ':id', :controller => 'static', :action => 'show'
I have a static page called about that among other information, has a contact form.
I currently have a contacts_controller that is in charge of inserting the contact information to the database.
Inside my routes.rb file, I have:
map.resources :contacts
My contact form (simplified) looks like this:
<% form_for @contact do |f| %>
<p class="errors"><%= f.error_messages %></p>
<p>
<%= f.label :first_name %>
<%= f.text_field :first_name %>
</p>
<p class="buttons"><%= f.submit %></p>
<% end %>
Which in turn submits to the create action of my contacts_controller.
My create action looks like this:
def create
@contact = Contact.new(params[:contact])
if @contact.save
flash[:notice] = "Email delivered successfully."
end
redirect_to "about"
end
The problem is, is the that when I redirect back to my about page the error_messages for the form get lost (since the error_messages for the form only exist for one request, and that request ends upon redirect).
How would I go about preserving the error_messages and still linking the users back to the about static url?
Would a session/flash be sufficient (if so, what code would I use to pass error messages) or am I going about this whole thing wrong?
Thanks!
