# Www.address.com/data?number=1&number2&number3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 24, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427 "2009-11-24T18:23:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/1 "2009-11-24T18:23:07Z")
Hi, Any ideas how to get the the numbers from the url in the subject? That is sent as a POST but all the parameters have the same name. I can only get the last number of the params. What’s the trick? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/2 "2009-11-24T18:24:19Z")
Sorry the request is: [www.address.com/data?number=1&number=2&number=3](http://www.address.com/data?number=1&number=2&number=3) ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/3 "2009-11-25T05:08:59Z")
Hi > . I can only get the last number of the params. Yes that is true.You have to modify the view? Please paste the view code Sijo ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/4 "2009-11-25T09:30:43Z")
Hi Sijo, Not really doing anything with the view actually. I just need to get those in the controller and reply with some data back to the client. This is part of a public spec that tells that a request like that should be sent to the server and the server should do something with it. I know that if the request would be: [www.address.com/data?number[]=1&number[]=2&number[]=3](http://www.address.com/data?number%5B%5D=1&number%5B%5D=2&number%5B%5D=3) Then I could easily get the values of the numbers, but that wouldn’t be following the spec and cause interoperability issues. Any ideas how I could set a rule in routes.rb so I could interpret this problematic url? Regards. ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/5 "2009-11-25T10:05:06Z")
Hi I think you have to look at Route Globbing in rails. It also deals with arrays.Please check this > **[Rails: Route Globbing](http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/12/rails-route-globbing.html)** > > Today I was working with some code that utilized the same array on various pages. After evaluating a few options I decided that Rails Route ... [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Routing.html](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Routing.html) Sijo ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/6 "2009-11-25T15:07:29Z")
Thanks Sijo, I actually found that by using any of these on the controller: request.query\_string request.request\_uri request.url I can get the whole clean request. So after some parsing I should be able to extract the params myself. A bit ugly but I can live with it at this point. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/7 "2009-11-27T11:42:35Z")
comopasta Gr wrote: > Hi, > > Any ideas how to get the the numbers from the url in the subject? That > is sent as a POST but all the parameters have the same name. I can only > get the last number of the params. > > What’s the trick? > > Thanks. Hi comopasta, One simple solution is pass them as a comma separated string. instead of [www.address.com/data?number=1&number=2&number=3](http://www.address.com/data?number=1&number=2&number=3) have it like this [www.address.com/data?number=1,2,3](http://www.address.com/data?number=1,2,3) and from the controller take it to an array @numbers = params[:number].split(‘,’) a quick and dirty solution 😃 cheers, sameera ---
**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/www-address-com-data-number-1-number2-number3/179427/8 "2009-11-27T14:37:37Z")
Hi, Yeah that would be an option. The big problem is that there is a OMA spec that tells that the request SHALL come in the form of [www.address.com/data?number=1&number=2&number=3](http://www.address.com/data?number=1&number=2&number=3) So that is the way how the request will come. It cannot be changed. In any case I solved the issue and can now get all the params and more 🙂 Thanks!