Okay, I took your guys' advice and found a pretty good Sinatra
tutorial for making a URL shortener. I've almost completed it, but I'm
still getting some weird errors since for some reason ["\"\] is being
appended to the URLs. If anyone has a chance, you can look at
http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=41958 to see my code and errors
for the two files (they're short).
Thanks
On Dec 3, 9:37 am, Robert Walker <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> MOLTEN wrote in post #965822:
>
> > match "/:category/:movie" => redirect("http://netflix.com/search?
> > category=%{category}&movie=%{movie}")
>
> > The only problems so far are if a category or movie has a space in it,
> > then I get an error "bad URI(is not URI?):" since it tries to go to
> > the site with a space still in the URL. How do I substitute spaces
> > inside symbols with something like a "+"? It has to be before it gets
> > redirected though. I'd like to be able to just type like netflixit.com/
> > dramatic comedy/heroes and it automatically turn the space into a "+"
> > right before it redirects, instead of manually typing the "+" in
> > netflixit.com/dramatic+comedy/heroes, which works correctly. So, I
> > guess before the URL a person types in gets to match
> > "/:category/:movie", it has to replace spaces with "+".
>
> If you want to do anything useful with this route then you need to
> create a controller:
>
> routes.rb
> ----------------------
> match "/:category/:movie" => "redirector#search"
>
> redirector_controller.rb
> ----------------------
> def search
> # Build your URL
> url =
> CGI::escape("netflix.com/search?category=#{params[:category]}&name=#{params
> [:movie]}&blahtechnical-stuff")
>
> # Do anything else you want before redirecting
>
> # Redirect to the constructed URL
> redirect_to(url)
> end
>
> Note: This may be a horrible implementation and may not be suitable for
> production. Just here to illustrate what sorts of things you can do once
> you get into an actual controller rather than trying to rely solely on
> the routes file.
>
> P.S. As aluded to earlier Rails may not be the best framework for what
> you're trying to do unless there's much more that the application will
> need to do. A Sinatra or simple Rack application may be all you need and
> would be considerably more efficient for this purpose.
>
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