On Dec 18, 11:01 pm, AlwaysCharging <goodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my app, I allow users to submit urls. They (of course) need the > ability to submit urls with a forward slash, "/", but whats the > regular expression to allow them to do that? > > I currently use: > > validates_format_of :url, :with => /^[-\w\_.]+$/i > > to only allow alphanumerics, dashes, underscores, and dots to prevent > cross site scripting when I later reconstruct these urls, but I can't > figure out how to allow "/" as well. > > Any ideas?
am a newbee.. but i think u can use underscore method for the whole url that will put '/' instead of ' : ' -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.