Need routing help for updating current_user

Question

I have a /account page that routes to users#edit and the form action is /users/1. When there are errors, the rendered page is /users/1. How can make the errors render at /account again?

If I redirect I lose those errors I need to display.

I suppose if it's a GET then do users#edit if it's a PUT then do users#update. Is that the right way? How should I write my routes?

Answer 1

You could make a route for POST /account that calls users#update:

# config/routes.rb
get '/account' => 'users#edit'
post '/account' => 'users#update'

Your form can now POST to /account and if there are validations errors the rendered view will have a URL of /account.

However this is breaking the RESTful pattern and patterns should only be broken if there's a good reason to break them.