'Back' browser action in Ruby on Rails

Question

Can the \'Back\' browser functionality be invoked from a Rails \'Back\' link?

Answer 1

If you like me do not want the behaviour of link_to "cancel", :back you could implement a helper method which either links to the records index path or show path. (i.e teams_path or team_path(@team)

module CancelFormButtonHelper
  def cancel_button(record)
    index_path = record.class.to_s.pluralize.downcase + "_path"
    path = record.persisted? ? record : eval(index_path)

    link_to "Cancel", path
  end
end

which can then be used as <%= cancel_button @team %> within a form for example.