How can I reload the current page in Ruby on Rails?

Question

I currently have a login popup in my header bar which is on every page in my website. I want to be able to reload the current page that the person is on after a successful login. How do I do this in the controller?

def create   #declaring and defining user variable stuff   if user.save     #reload current page <--how do I do this?   end end 

Thanks

Answer 1

For my application, I use redirect_to :back and it does the trick. However, I doubt this might have an error in a non general use case(s) (user came from a special page?) but i haven't found it so far in my app.

Answer 2

If you're looking for a way to get the page to refresh (typically redirect_to :back) with an XHR request, you don't have to look for a way to change the response type - just tell the page to reload with inline JS.

format.js {render inline: "location.reload();" }

Like Elena mentions, this should go in a respond_to block, like so:

respond_to do |format|   format.js {render inline: "location.reload();" } end