How to redirect in a ui-router resolver?

Yauheni’s answer does work, but to get around the weird timeout thing, you can reject the promise, and catch that in the $stateChangeError event, and do your redirect there. Like so…

state('admin', {
  resolve: {
    auth: function(UserService, $q, permissionService) {
      var deferred = $q.defer();
      return UserService.load().then(function(user){
        if (permissionService.can(user, {goTo: state})) {
          return deferred.resolve({});
        } else {
          return deferred.reject({redirectTo: 'some_other_state'});
        }
      });
    }
  }
});

And then ui-router always broadcasts “stateChangeError”, so you can do something like this..

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeError', function(evt, to, toParams, from, fromParams, error) {
  if (error.redirectTo) {
    $state.go(error.redirectTo);
  } else {
    $state.go('error', {status: error.status})
  }
})