Added a 'Random Post' button to the homepage, created route and action to redirect to a random post

Author: KODURISAIKIRAN

app/controllers/notes_controller.rb

@@ -501,4 +501,9 @@ def published_notes
         .where('node.status = 1')
         .where.not(nid: hidden_nids)
   end
+  def random
+    post = Post.order("RANDOM()").first
+    redirect_to post_path(post)
+  end
+  
 end

app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

@@ -121,12 +121,17 @@
     <%= render :partial => 'layouts/header' %>
     <div id="top_map"> </div>
     <div class="container">
-      <div class="row">
-
-        <%= yield %>
-
-      </div><!--/row-->
-    </div><!--/container-->
+    <div class="row">
+  
+      <div class="col-md-12 mb-2">
+        <%= link_to '🎲 Random Post', random_path, class: 'btn btn-secondary' %>
+      </div>
+  
+      <%= yield %>
+  
+    </div><!--/row-->
+  </div><!--/container-->
+  
 
     <%= render :partial => "layouts/footer" %>
 

config/routes.rb

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 
   # Manually written API functions
   post 'comment/create/token/:id.:format', to: 'comment#create_by_token'
+  get '/random', to: 'posts#random'
+
 
   post '/node/update/title' => 'notes#update_title'