don't misbehave when redirecting to nil. Closes #10272 [farleyknight]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@8633 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
index d419a09ec5..b0f713b049 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
@@ -1029,7 +1029,8 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
       # RedirectBackError will be raised. You may specify some fallback
       # behavior for this case by rescuing RedirectBackError.
       def redirect_to(options = {}, response_status = {}) #:doc: 
-        
+        raise ActionControllerError.new("Cannot redirect to nil!") if options.nil?
+
         if options.is_a?(Hash) && options[:status] 
           status = options.delete(:status) 
         elsif response_status[:status]