Ability to customize what happens after record is created/edited.

[MrJoy]

In some workflows, it makes more sense to redirect the user to, say, the index view after creating/editing a record than to send the user to the show view. Having the ability to gracefully customize this behavior would be quite helpful.

I've reviewed the Avo code and it looks like changing this behavior right now would basically involve copy-pasting the create method into my resource class, and changing it there. That's certainly a feasible short-term workaround but I'm concerned about drift, as the upstream code evolves.

[adrianthedev]

Hi,

That's not such a bad idea. I'm thinking about adding the following methods after_save_path and after_update_path like so

# redirect the user to the index page
self.after_save_path =  :index

# redirect to show (default)
self.after_save_path =  :show

Do you think that would be enough?

[MrJoy]

It's certainly an excellent start, and would probably cover 80% of user needs.

I could certainly imagine situations where it wouldn't be enough but I don't think you should hold off on implementing what you've suggested in favor of sorting out a "perfect" solution.

[MrJoy]

Rather, "80% of user needs, including my immediate need".

[adrianthedev]

I agree! Thanks for the feedback 👍

On the roadmap to take on next.

[adrianthedev]

At some point we added controller hooks too.