Forum: Ruby on Rails passing url withe period escape char

In my app I'm trying to use url's like /foo/23/bar

Everything works, except if there's a decimal. That is, I get a routing
error if that 23 is a 23.5 or a 23.0.  I saw a bug posted on escape
chars and it  looks like it should be fixed in Rails 1.2.3, but I'm
still having issues.  The patch, however, doesn't explicitly show it
working with the period, just other chars like ? @ [ etc..

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/7544/...

Anyone have any insights on this?  I'm pretty much stumped..

Vince W. wrote:
> Anyone have any insights on this?  I'm pretty much stumped..
> 

map.connect '/foo/:param1/:param2', :controller => "foo", :requirements
=> { :param1 => /.*/ }


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Michael Wang

Michael Wang wrote:

> map.connect '/foo/:param1/:param2', :controller => "foo", :requirements
> => { :param1 => /.*/ }
> 

That didn't seem to work.. not sure if it's because I'm using restful 
routes.  My actual routes snippet looks like this:


map.resources :locations, :controller => 'home', :action => "index", 
:requirements => { :lat => /.*/ },
    :member_path => "/locations/:lat,:lng,:distance" do |location|
        location.resources :categories do |categories|
            categories.resources :places, :name_prefix => 'category_' do 
|places|
              places.resources :addresses
            end
end


(I'm using the resource hacks plugin: 
http://www.jvoorhis.com/articles/2006/08/01/announ...)

Vince W. wrote:
> map.resources :locations, :controller => 'home', :action => "index", 
> (I'm using the resource hacks plugin: 
> http://www.jvoorhis.com/articles/2006/08/01/announ...)
> 

Hmm...I haven't worked in that sort of setup before. You could try
overriding what special characters are used for routing if you don't
care about the routing by extension feature of Rails (e.g. route by
.rss, .xml, etc.).

The actual source is in:

actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb

and the line that's sets up the special characters is:

SEPARATORS = %w( / ; . , ? )

You can hack the source code directly or add something like this to your
config/routes.rb file:

ActionController::Routing::SEPARATORS =  %w( / ; , ? )

You'll get a warning about modifying a constant but it should work.


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Michael Wang

Michael Wang wrote:

> 
> You'll get a warning about modifying a constant but it should work.

And it does! *Thank you*