Rails: call another controller action from a controller

Question

I need to call the create action in controller A, from controller B.

The reason is that I need to redirect differently when I\'m calling from controller B.

Answer 1

You can use url_for to get the URL for a controller and action and then use redirect_to to go to that URL.

redirect_to url_for(:controller => :controller_name, :action => :action_name)

Answer 2

You can call another action inside a action as follows:

redirect_to action: 'action_name'

class MyController < ApplicationController
  def action1
   redirect_to action: 'action2'
  end

  def action2
  end
end

Answer 3

Composition to the rescue!

Given the reason, rather than invoking actions across controllers one should design controllers to seperate shared and custom parts of the code. This will help to avoid both - code duplication and breaking MVC pattern.

Although that can be done in a number of ways, using concerns (composition) is a good practice.

# controllers/a_controller.rb
class AController < ApplicationController
  include Createable

  private def redirect_url
    'one/url'
  end
end

# controllers/b_controller.rb
class BController < ApplicationController
  include Createable

  private def redirect_url
    'another/url'
  end
end

# controllers/concerns/createable.rb
module Createable
  def create
    do_usefull_things
    redirect_to redirect_url
  end
end

Hope that helps.