I’m using the atom builder to build a feed. It’s mostly working but
the value in the link element of each entry is not being generated as
it needs to be.
My url scheme looks like http://example.com/blog/nickname/id
I have a controller called blog_entries and a routes.rb file which a
seet of maps for blog_entries, it looks something like this (amongst
all the other routes):
map.blog_entries ‘blog/:nickname’,
:controller => “blog_entries”,
:action => “index”,
:conditions => {:method => :get}
map.formatted_blog_entries ‘blog/:nickname.:format’,
:controller => “blog_entries”,
:action => “index”,
:conditions => {:method => :get}
In my views, to generate the correct URLs for links I do something
like:
<%= link_to ‘New Entry’, new_blog_entry_path(:nickname =>
@blog.nickname) %>
and this creates the correct path.
The builder code looks like:
feed.entry(post) do |entry|
entry.title post.title
etc…
end
The problem is the generated link in the atom output, it looks like
when what I need is
I’ve tried
entry.link :href => “some other url”
but that adds a second link entry into the output which is in the
wrong place in the XML so is ignored by readers.
So, can I hook into the url generation mechanism to get the nickname
value into the URL, or
can I tell the builder to use “nickname” when generating the url?
If not I guess the other thing is to generate the atom feed myself,
seems a shame not to use the builder though.