Rails 3 constraints, named routes and form_tag

Rails
1

I have the following URL I match to show a subset of text from a book

/bookname/chapter1/line1/chapter2/line2

I have a route definition that works perfectly when entering a url in
the browser however I cannot get a link_to or path name for this url

match ‘/:book/:chapter1/:line1/:chapter2/:line2’,
:to => “lines#showlines”,
:constraints => {
:book => /\d*\s?\w{2,}/,
:chapter1 => /\d+/,
:line1 => /\d+/,
:chapter2 => /\d+/,
:line2 => /\d+/ },
:as => :showlines

I keep getting the error
No route matches
{:chapter1=>“1”, :verse1=>“1”, :controller=>“verses”, :chapter2=>“1”,
:action=>“showverses”, :verse2=>“3”, :book=>“john”}

I have tried

<%=h link_to(“link”,
showlines_path(:book=>‘john’,:chapter1=>‘1’,:chapter2=>‘1’,:line1=>‘1’,:line2=>‘3’))
%>

This is Rails 3.

Any pointers?
Thanks!

2

FYI:

What I am trying to do is create a form to select a location in the
book and then render it.

Thanks!

3

OK - at least I have a workaround…

removing the constraints allows link_to, etc to work. However, I have
to deal with checking for properly formatted URL’s in the controller.

Alan