How can I reload the current page in Ruby on Rails?

Question

I currently have a login popup in my header bar which is on every page in my website. I want to be able to reload the current page that the person is on after a successful

Answer 1

Archonic's answer above worked for me. However, in Rails 3, I had to place this in a respond_to block in order to avoid an 'ArgumentError (too few arguments)' error:

respond_to do |format|
  format.js {render inline: "location.reload();" }
end

Answer 2

Building on Archonic's and Elena's Answers, the reload function accepts a parameter to force the page to reload from the server aka forceGet, instead of from cache. A parameter can be set by the controller logic, like successful or failed login of a user, to trigger the desired behavior when it is sent to the page.

# force_get = controller_logic ? true : false

respond_to do |format|
  format.js { render inline: "location.reload(#{force_get});" }
end

UPDATE: the logic has been deprecated for the forceGet option. If you do want to reload from the server you can use this logic:

# force_get = controller_logic ? true : false

respond_to do |format|
  format.js { render inline: force_get ? "window.location.href = window.location.href;" : "location.reload();" }
end

Answer 3

just redirect to whatever url you want in the function:

redirect_to what_ever_path