Rails: How to POST internally to another controller action?

Question

This is going to sound strange, but hear me out...I need to be able to make the equivalent of a POST request to one of my other controllers. The SimpleController

Answer 1

You shouldn't be doing this. Are you creating a model? Then having two class methods on the model would be much better. It also separates the code much better. Then you can use the methods not only in controllers but also background jobs (etc.) in the future.

For example if you're creating a Person:

class VerboseController < ApplicationController
  def create
    Person.verbose_create(params)
  end
end

class SimpleController < ApplicationController
  def create
    Person.simple_create(params)
  end
end

Then in the Person-model you could go like this:

class Person
  def self.verbose_create(options)
    # ... do the creating stuff here
  end

  def self.simple_create(options)
    # Prepare the options as you were trying to do in the controller...
    prepared_options = options.merge(some: "option")
    # ... and pass them to the verbose_create method
    verbose_create(prepared_options)
  end
end

I hope this can help a little. :-)