How can you adapt a standard Authlogic app so instead of the home page every time, it directs a user to whatever link they were trying to get to?
Example 1 - standard log in works as expected
User goes to app.com
Goes through 'login' process
Redirected to home_url
Example 2 - user attempts to visit a specific page
User goes to app.com/specific_link
Redirected to login_url for authentication
Expects to be sent back to /special_link; instead sent to home_url
How can I return the user to the link they want in Example 2?
Save the page when you go to login, then used that to return the user to that page after login, e.g.
# redirect to the login page. Call this in the login action, when successful.
def redirect_away(*params)
session[:original_uri] = request.request_uri
redirect_to(*params)
end
# returns to the original url from a redirect_away or to a default url
def redirect_back(*params)
uri = session[:original_uri]
session[:original_uri] = nil
if uri
redirect_to uri
else
redirect_to(*params)
end
end