> Hey all,
> So we're using acts_as_authenticated, and redirecting to the url they
> asked for once they log back into a timed-out account.

> The problem is that redirect_to doesn't seem to preserve the HTTP
> method. This is ok for the faked-up methods eg using "_method=delete"
> But if the URL a person asked for was a POST it fails miserably with a
> routing error (eg:
> no route found to match "/user/42/orders/23/clone" with
> {:method=>:get}

> These sorts of URLs are usually kept inside a button_to.
> if the user, say, has their orders page open for a while, and comes
> back after lunch and clicks "clone me order number 23", and s
> redirected to the login page, when returning it spews as per above
> error message rather than actually redirecting.

> I've been trying to hunt around inside the code to find some way of
> passing in the http method, but have so far come up blank. I've also
> tried passing in the method via the "_method" parameter  - but it
> doesn't work, even for the delete/put buttons (I have a "delete order"
> button, and it redirects to the show page for the order).

> Putting some basic printf debugging into store_location shows that the
> request method has been accurately populated with post/put/delete...
> but I can't find a magic combination to actually pass that into
> redirect_to... becuase it only seems to accept a uri (without request
> headers).

> any ideas?

> Taryn