Forum: Ruby on Rails how to route localhost:3000/redirect/www.google.com ?

I would like to filter all incoming pages via my local rails server,
so I would like to access the web by typing a url into my browser
along the lines of:

http://localhost:3000/redirect/www.google.com

I have a controller called redirect already, in it is a function
called
index just waiting to process the incoming url, which it hopes to
find in params[:id]

Now, could some kind soul, please tell me what line to add to
my config/routes.rb so that this works?

I tried reading 
http://darynholmes.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/beginners-tutorial-routing-in-rails-20-with-rest-part-1-of-n/
to find out, and while I thought it was a great tutorial, it did not
seem to be getting to my problem quickly enough.

Gratefully,
Arun

arunmehta wrote:
> I would like to filter all incoming pages via my local rails server,

Huh?  What exactly are you trying to do here?

> so I would like to access the web by typing a url into my browser
> along the lines of:
> 
> http://localhost:3000/redirect/www.google.com
> 
> I have a controller called redirect already, in it is a function
> called
> index just waiting to process the incoming url, which it hopes to
> find in params[:id]
> 
> Now, could some kind soul, please tell me what line to add to
> my config/routes.rb so that this works?

Well, let's think about this.  The path is '/redirect' followed by the 
URL to redirect to.  That means that we can express it as 
'/redirect/:url'.

The controller is redirect, and the action is index.

And let's give the route the name of redirect.

Put that all together and you get
map.redirect '/redirect/:url', :controller => 'redirect', :action => 
'index'

Does that make sense?

> I tried reading 
> http://darynholmes.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/beginners-tutorial-routing-in-rails-20-with-rest-part-1-of-n/
> to find out, and while I thought it was a great tutorial, it did not
> seem to be getting to my problem quickly enough.

What you actually should be reading is the Routing docs right in the 
Rails API docs!
> 
> Gratefully,
> Arun

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