On Nov 19, 11:27 pm, candlerb <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Why do you need to terminate a request early? Is this an HTTP request? > > By "request" I meant "controller action". > > Within a method called by the controller action, I want to render > something and then prevent the controller action from continuing any > further (otherwise I'd get a double-render error, and/or the > controller would make changes to the database state which I don't want > it to). > > I am aware of before_filter. but in this case I will have gone quite a > long way into the controller action logic before it's known that I > need to terminate this particular request. It doesn't divide neatly > into "pre-condition check" and then "do stuff". > > I thought I had seen somewhere that there was a way to terminate a > request early, but I could be thinking of a different framework. In > Sinatra you can 'throw :halt, response'.
Just return. Actions are normal Ruby methods. E.g: return redirect_to(users_path) //jarkko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=.
