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@@ -622,10 +622,13 @@ Another way to handle returning responses to an HTTP request is with `redirect_t
redirect_to photos_url
```
-You can use `redirect_to` with any arguments that you could use with `link_to` or `url_for`. There's also a special redirect that sends the user back to the page they just came from:
+You can use `redirect_back` to return the user to the page they just came from.
+This location is pulled from the `HTTP_REFERER` header which is not guaranteed
+to be set by the browser, so you must provide the `fallback_location`
+to use in this case.
```ruby
-redirect_to :back
+redirect_back(fallback_location: root_path)
```
#### Getting a Different Redirect Status Code
@@ -1154,14 +1157,12 @@ To pass a local variable to a partial in only specific cases use the `local_assi
* `_articles.html.erb`
```erb
- <%= content_tag_for :article, article do |article| %>
- <h2><%= article.title %></h2>
+ <h2><%= article.title %></h2>
- <% if local_assigns[:full] %>
- <%= simple_format article.body %>
- <% else %>
- <%= truncate article.body %>
- <% end %>
+ <% if local_assigns[:full] %>
+ <%= simple_format article.body %>
+ <% else %>
+ <%= truncate article.body %>
<% end %>
```