Post Redirect Get pattern in Rails

Question

How can I implement PRG in Rails?

I used PRG in Rails, but I am not totally convinced it\'s right. I was wondering is there any better way to handle it in Rails?

Answer 1

It is true, though, that you should not do redirect_to '/'. You should define root in your routes file and then do redirect_to root_path.

Edit: Oops, that was supposed to be a comment to SpyrosP's answer.

Also: Here is some excellence guidance on flash. Particularly this may ease your mind:

The flash is a special part of the session which is cleared with each request. This means that values stored there will only be available in the next request, which is useful for storing error messages etc.

The interesting things there is that, yes it is a part of the session, so answers to "use the session instead of flash" are misguided, as Justin Etheredge's answer already put it. The other thing is that it says it is useful for storing messages instead of only for storing messages. With the added "etc" it would lead me to believe that it is within the intended usage to store user information in there as well.

One last thing, I would agree with Aditya Sanghi that you should just store the user parameters and not an entire user object in the flash.