I am trying to get a back feature working on a Iphone web application.
I have looked at all the other posts about this issue, but none of them address my specific case.
This is my sequence of actions;
home page -> event page (click of a person name) -> person page
Right now, I have the <%= link_to 'Back', :back %> on both the event page and person page. With this kind of implementation, when I click on back from the person page, it takes me to the event page as expected. But when I click on back from the event page, it goes back to the person page because that is the page I came from.(whereas the expected functionality and the functionality from a browser back button would be to take me to the home page)..
Can anybody help me get this functionality in Rails?
In the rails documentation for the link_to method you can read:
(...) use :back to link to the referrer - a JavaScript back link will be used in place of a referrer if none exists
And you can see that in the code of url_for method:
when :back
controller.request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] || 'javascript:history.back()'
else
In your case, the referrer for the event page is the person page.
Like @Zepplock pointed, you probably want to hardcode the javascript:history.back(), this is the same as clicking the Back button.