Rails has ActionController::Base class that implements redirect_to method. This redirect_to method is used for redirection in Rails framework. In order to use redirect_to method, you need to pass URL of another site to it. You can also use it to redirect to another method of another class.

Here is an example that presents with both types of redirects: url and method of another class.

class MyRedirect < ApplicationController
 def index
  redirect_to controller: ‘myredirectclass’, action:’myredirectclassmethod’
 end
 def site_redirect
  redirect_to “http://www.mysite.com”
 end
end

Find it on GitHub

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Note that the body of HTTP redirect is not rendered in the browser. As a result, you don’t need to create views for each of the redirects. There is another important fact about redirect_to. It is ran only after entire action is ran. In other word, it is called after action if finished in its entirety. You can modify this behavior by calling an “and return” inside your redirect set up.