Hi Folks, I'm trying to set up a RESTful route in my rails app and have hit a snag. My application allows various different types of querying centered around a search phrase, and I decided it'd be nice to that in my RESTful API by exposing resources like:
http://www.myapp.com/api/keyword_research/SOME_SEARCH_PHRASE for basic information about the phrase, and then http://www.myapp.com/api/keyword_research/SOME_SEARCH_PHRASE/popularity for a specific query on that phrase (it's popularity in this case). Essentially I'm trying to represent the search space as a resource space, with one resource for each possible phrase. I set up the following in my routes.rb, and it ALMOST works: map.resources( :keyword_research, :controller => 'api/v3/keyword_research' , :member => {:index => :get, :popularity => :get } ) I can then use something like the following to generate resource URLs: keyword_research_url( 'some search phrase' ) and popularity_keyword_research_url( 'some search phrase' ) The only problem is when the search phrase contains a dot. That leads to urls like: http://www.myapp.com/api/keyword_research/PHRASE.WITH.DOTS and http://www.myapp.com/api/keyword_research/PHRASE.WITH.DOTS/popularity which confuses the routing system to no end. This results in various errors such as template missing, no route found, etc etc. Essentially I think the routing system is interpretting the dotted id as specifying a representation type, or something similar. I thought a nice solution would be to encode the search_phrase portion of these resource urls when I generate them, leading to urls like: http://www.myapp.com/api/keyword_research/PHRASE%2eWITH%2eDOTS and http://www.myapp.com/api/keyword_research/PHRASE%2eWITH%2eDOTS/popularity I've tested urls encoded like this and they appear to play nicely with the routing I have, and are within the specs AFAIK. I'd be happy with this, but the problem is that I don't know how to generate urls like this using the url helper methods. Anyone have any ideas? I'd be open to either a clean way to support un-encoded dots, or some advice on how to get ids with the dots encoded out of the url helpers. Or some other elegant solution, of course! Thanks, Pete -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
