Regular expression matching in routes.rb

All,

I have a route specified as:

map.connect ‘:folder/:filename’, :folder => /htmlfiles/, :controller =>
“eSimply”, :action => “preview_HTML”

I expect it to invoke the “preview_HTML” action in the “eSimply”
controller.

Given an argument of “htmlfiles/xyz.html”, it keeps saying that it can’t
find an “htmlfiles” action. As you can see, I’m attempting to match the
first parameter against “htmlfiles”.

Any idea why this route won’t match?

(I’ve also tried the “requirements form” of the route and can’t get it
to work).

Thanks,
Wes

Wes G. wrote:

All,

I have a route specified as:

map.connect ‘:folder/:filename’, :folder => /htmlfiles/, :controller =>
“eSimply”, :action => “preview_HTML”

I expect it to invoke the “preview_HTML” action in the “eSimply”
controller.

Given an argument of “htmlfiles/xyz.html”, it keeps saying that it can’t
find an “htmlfiles” action. As you can see, I’m attempting to match the
first parameter against “htmlfiles”.

Any idea why this route won’t match?

Not sure why that’s not working. But routes will match literals in the
main pattern parameter, so you could just do this:

map.connect ‘htmlfiles/:filename’, :controller => “e_simply”, :action =>
“preview_HTML”

Note that I also changed the controller to use the lowercase with
underscores form of the name, instead of the camelcase form - that might
be causing you problems too. I’m not sure of the details of how
:controller must be specified, but I always use the lowercase version
and that works for me.

–josh
Josh S.
http://blog.hasmanythrough.com

It’s being evaluated - what is happening is that the controller is being
added to the front of the URL, when actually I don’t want that to
happen.

I’m requesting the URL via a hard-coded string in Javascript so I didn’t
think that the url_for stuff would happen to it, but the request itself
must be getting intercepted and modified.

In fact, I want to be able to say something like

map.connect ‘xyz/abc’ :controller => myController, etc.

I can’t force it to ignore the controller using :controller => nil,
since that will keep it from getting evaluated correctly.

But I get the controller in front of my URL which is totally irritating
because in order to make it work I probably have to hard code the
controller name that I know will be prepended.

I think I’d like the URL generation to maybe be less smart. I’m not
sure.

Wes

Norman T. wrote:

Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 23:51 +0200 schrieb Wes G.:

Given an argument of “htmlfiles/xyz.html”, it keeps saying that it can’t
find an “htmlfiles” action. As you can see, I’m attempting to match the
first parameter against “htmlfiles”.

Any idea why this route won’t match?

(I’ve also tried the “requirements form” of the route and can’t get it
to work).

Are you sure this route is evaluated? Perhaps a route before it is
matching and this is never processed.


Norman T.

http://blog.inlet-media.de

Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 23:51 +0200 schrieb Wes G.:

Given an argument of “htmlfiles/xyz.html”, it keeps saying that it can’t
find an “htmlfiles” action. As you can see, I’m attempting to match the
first parameter against “htmlfiles”.

Any idea why this route won’t match?

(I’ve also tried the “requirements form” of the route and can’t get it
to work).

Are you sure this route is evaluated? Perhaps a route before it is
matching and this is never processed.


Norman T.

http://blog.inlet-media.de