Polymorphic routing to get the path of different resource

Suppose that we have three types of resources and we have three model as Employee, Employer and Manager.

Now we also have separate dashboard action in controller and After sign in we have to redirect to dashboard path according to the resource.

employees controller -

 
 class EmployeesController < ApplicationController
  
   def dashboard
         # some_code
   end 

 end

employers controller -

 class EmployersController < ApplicationController
  
   def dashboard
         # some_code
   end 
 end

managers controller -

 class ManagersController < ApplicationController
  
   def dashboard
         # some_code
   end 
 end

And routes would look like this:

 resources :employees do
   member do
     get 'dashboard'
   end
 end

 resources :employers do
   member do
     get 'dashboard'
   end
 end

 resources :managers do
   member do
     get 'dashboard'
   end
 end

In this scenario we can use switch case:

 case current_user
 when Manager
   dashboard_manager_path
 when Employer
   dashboard_employer_path
 when Employee
   dashboard_employee_path
 end

Don't you think it can be re-factor!

Rails provides polymorphic_path that makes polymorphic url generation much easier and simpler. There is also a method named polymorphic_url which is the same as the polymorphic_path except that polymorphic_url generate the full url including the host name.


These methods are useful when you want to generate the correct URL or path to a RESTful resource without having to know the exact type of the record in question.

It also provides support for nested resources.

So, we can re-factor our code using ploymorphic_path helper method:

 polymorphic_path([:dashboard, current_user])