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Posted by Billy Boozer
Billy Boozer
6,486 Points

Incoming page url

This is a rails based site and I was wondering if there is a way to get the incoming page url. I need to know what the incoming page url is so that i can change the background of a landing page based on the url that the user is coming from.

Example: If user comes from www.example.com/1 then I need to show background1 on www.example.com/landingpage. If user comes from www.example.com/2 then I need to show background2 on www.example.com/landingpage. else if user comes from www.somerandompage.com then display default background on www.example.com/landingpage.

3 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You can usually get a better response to these sorts of intermediate questions over on Stack Overflow.

In fact check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5819721/how-to-get-request-referrer-path

Sharon Walls
Sharon Walls
9,234 Points
Sharon Walls
Sharon Walls
9,234 Points

You could also use referral links to direct traffic to the right page.

Main page: http://www.mysite.com

Referral link: http://www.mysite.com/s?ref=2

Billy Boozer
Billy Boozer
6,486 Points
Billy Boozer
Billy Boozer
6,486 Points

James Barnett - the solution worked from stack for getting at the incoming url but I am now having a different issue.

This is what my code looks like:

-if URI(request.referer).path == '/some-page'
  %p some content
-elsif URI(request.referer).path == '/some-other-page'
  %p some other content
-else
  %p The default content

So my problem now is that if I am coming to this page from anything other than '/some-page' || '/some-other-page' I get this error: bad URI(is not URI?):

How would you set a default state for this page? I also tried this:

-elsif URI(request.referer).path != '/some-page' || '/some-other-page'