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copied!<p>I was wondering how to determine what page a :delete request is coming from? For example, I have a wall post that appears on both a user’s home page and show page. When a user deletes a post from the home page, I would want the user to be redirected to the home page while if he deleted it from his show (profile) page, I would want the user to get redirected back there. The issue is though, I’m having trouble differentiating where its coming from.</p> <p>I understand that in :delete requests, you can't pass in hidden values since it’s not a :post. I’ve tried checking the params, but they all wind up being the same. They have the same :method, :controller, and :action i.e.</p> <pre><code>{"_method"=>"delete", "authenticity_token"=>"xNsfq27sBrpssTO8sk0aAzzIu8cvnFJEZ30c17Q+BCM=", "action"=>"destroy", "controller"=>"pub_messages", "id"=>"33"} </code></pre> <p>In my destroy action, I have: </p> <pre><code>def destroy @pub_message = PubMessage.find_by_id(params[:id]) @pub_message.destroy redirect_to user_path(@pub_message.to_id) end </code></pre> <p>But instead of always redirecting back to the user_path, I want to redirect to the root_path but just can't figure out when the user is issuing the destroy action while on the home page or not.</p> <p>Where I show the delete option in my view is...</p> <pre><code><% if current_user == feed_item.user or current_user == feed_item.to %> <%= link_to "delete", feed_item, method: :delete, confirm: "You sure?", title: feed_item.content %> <% end %> </code></pre> <p>How can I fix this?</p>

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