Routes and urls: www.example.com

Rails
1

I’m building an application that stores links, but i’ve run into a
problem with routing. If my routes.rb looks like this:

map.widget ‘/widget/show/:url’, :controller => “widget”, :action =>
“show”

then when i go to /widget/show/www.example.com then i get an error. If
i change the route to:

map.widget ‘/widget/show’, :controller => “widget”, :action => “show”

and i enter in /widget/show?url=www.example.com then everything works
great, but i’m currious if there is anything i can do to make the first
routing method work?

2

You might want to try:

map.widget ‘/widget/show/*url’, :controller => ‘widget’, :action =>
‘show’

and see if that works. I seem to recall that the dots are the issue,
as the router typically uses them to separate formats from request
params.

–Matt J.

On Sep 19, 11:04 pm, Richard S. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

3

That Worked!! Now it looks even better than it did before, I can go to
/widget/show/www.example.com without that nasty ?url= . Good Work!! I
also have to admit that i should have RTFM
Rails Routing from the Outside In — Ruby on Rails Guides mentions this technique,
apparently its called Route Globbing and not found until a few minutes
of reading. Thanks again for your help Matt!!