Is there a way to redirect to a specific page after a RESTful delete in Rails?

Question

Lets say I have a message resource. Somewhere in the html I have:

<%= link_to("Delete", message, :title => 'Delete', :confirm => 'Are you sure?', 
   :method => :delete )%> 

Right after I delete it, it redirects me to the page where it lists all the messages. Is there a way to redirect to a page that I specify after the deletion?

Answer 1

In the controller:

def delete
  Item.find(params[:id]).destroy
  redirect_to :action => "index"
end

To redirect to the last url, use:

redirect_to :back

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000662

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