Rails: Overriding redirect_to.

Coding in a semi-productive site (it's on staging), the client wanted to redirect_to some strange places after some actions.

Most of this redirects defeated the original purpose of the controller's action, so I decided to implement the "return_to on params" pattern to override the redirect at will.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
 def redirect_to(*args)
 if (new_path = params[:return_to]).present?
 logger.debug %Q|return_to found in params. Redirecting to "#{new_path}".|
 super new_path, *args[1..-1]
 else
 super *args
 end
 end
end

I can't decide if it is genius or hacky.