# Url forwarding

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-forwarding/131192>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-forwarding/131192 "2008-03-06T20:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![kashmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kashmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kashmu)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-forwarding/131192/1 "2008-03-06T20:41:12Z")

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Hi,

Just beginning to look into RoR, have a question about routing.

Have a need to create a RoR front end to an application written in  
python, which do have a lot of REStful URLs. Python application  
running and listening to localhost:8080 and I need to talk with that  
from RoR on localhost:3000.

ie, [http://localhost:3000/xxx/xxx/xxx](http://localhost:3000/xxx/xxx/xxx)…  
should be routed to  
hrrp://localhost:8080/xxx/xxx/xxx

writing rules for all URLs seperately in outes.rb is an option, is  
there any other way of doing this ?

To put it in another words, in the RoR controller can I get the whole  
URL instead of getting the action/param and recreating the forwarded  
path from components ?

Thanks much for your advice.

Regards,  
kashmu