Redirect To The Topics List After Creating A New Topic

Goals

When a user creates a new topic, or edits an existing topic, they are currently shown a page with just that topic. For our voting app it makes more sense that they would be taken back to the topic list.

In this step we'll change the flow of our app so that the user is taken back to the topics list after they add a new topic (create) or edit an existing topic (update).

Steps

Step 1: Change the topics controller

Open app/controllers/topics_controller.rb and look at the create method.

Find the line:

format.html { redirect_to @topic, notice: 'Topic was successfully created.' }

and change @topic to topics_path like this:

format.html { redirect_to topics_path, notice: 'Topic was successfully created.' }

so that the file looks like this:

def create
  @topic = Topic.new(topic_params)

  respond_to do |format|
    if @topic.save
      format.html { redirect_to topics_path, notice: 'Topic was successfully created.' }
      format.json { render :show, status: :created, location: @topic }
    else
      format.html { render :new }
      format.json { render json: @topic.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
    end
  end
end

In the same file, locate the update method.

Find the line:

format.html { redirect_to @topic, notice: 'Topic was successfully updated.' }

and change @topic to topics_path like before:

format.html { redirect_to topics_path, notice: 'Topic was successfully updated.' }

Step 2: Confirm your changes

Look at http://localhost:3000.

Explanation

format.html { redirect_to topics_path, notice: 'Topic was successfully created.' }:

format.html means that the server should send HTML back to the browser

redirect_to topics_path means show the topics list page when we're done creating or updating a topic

notice: 'Topic was successfully created/updated.' puts the message into the flash so it will be displayed on the topics list

Next Step:

Go on to Make The Topic Title A Link

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