In one of my ActiveAdmin pages I have fields containing a URL (either https: or file:). How can I make that when clicked on a new browser tab opens with the corresponding content ?
I tried
link_to('site web', :siteWeb)
but the result is an error message:
undefined method `siteWeb_path' for #<#<Class:0x00007f048201edb0>:0x00007f048202f700>
The problem here is your using a path helper that isn't defined in your routes.rb file. There's an easy way to see what the right path helper is though, just go to your terminal and run:
rails routes
You'll get a bunch of information about each route, along with the specific name of the route path helper function defined in Rails. Then you can just use it like so: https://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper/link_to
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I'm getting this issue:
Router::connect('/',array('controller' => 'Controller','action' => 'login'));
This will show www.mysite/controller/login as the site URL
I would like to overwrite www.mysite.com/controller/login with just www.mysite.com, but still go to the login page. Does anyone know how to do it with Cake 2.x?
The behavior It's not exactly as you describe.
What the following does:
Router::connect('/',array('controller' => 'Controller','action' => 'login'));
is allow you to type www.mysite.com in your browser, and get the view that www.mysite.com/controller/login renders.
It works like an url rewrite instead of a redirect. Therefore, the above should work as expected. However, if it's not an example, try to name your controller differently, as it may cause trouble with CakePHP.
As stated by Inigo Router::connect() just connects a route/URL to a controller action. So with your defined route you should be able to goto www.mysite.com and your login action will be served (although I'm not sure that it is a good idea to have the base URL act as the login page).
It does not prevent www.mysite.com/controller/login from working as this is one of CakePHP's default routes.
To disable the default routes you need to remove this line from routes.php:-
require CAKE . 'Config' . DS . 'routes.php';
Be warned, if you remove this line you must have defined routes for all your pages in your app's routes file. This is not necessarily a bad thing, Beware the Route to Evil is a good read in regards to this.
As I used the "Auth" component I had to add in the function
beforeFilter()
of my controller this line:
$this->Auth->allow('anAction', 'anotherAction', '**login**');
Is it possible to not using angualar routes, because if I defined an routes like:
app.config(function($routeProvider){
$routeProvider.when('/home')
})
my url will look like www.app.com/#home,
I dont want to change url, just www.app.com nice and clean, in this case how to defined template for defferent controller and how to load the template in ng-view, and how to pass url parameter?
any idea?
You cannot do that with the built-in routing mechanism because path is required for every route. However, you can use ui-router library in order to create URL-less states and navigate to them using either code or directive.
I created this plunker to demonstrate how to use ui-router to navigate among states without modifying URL.
I have a model that stores a path in the database under a column named "link_path" - for example:
Model.first.link_path == /posts/1
(or, put another way, I am caching the controller/model_id in a database table so Rails doesn't have to build it from scratch.)
In my view, I would like to build up a URL using this path information - for example, http://www.mysite.com/posts/1
I currently have the following code in my view:
<a href="<%= "#{request.protocol}#{request.domain}#{request.port_string}#{post.link_path}" %>">
In development all works as expected both when using POW/Nginx and Webrick - e.g., the link builds up to
http://localhost:3000/posts/1).
However, in production, when I hover over the link, it shows correctly (e.g., mysite.com/posts/1) BUT, when I click on the link, the '/' between .com and posts is strangely missing. The page links to http://mysite.composts/1
Any thoughts on how to fix?
Thanks to BrMcMullin - I wasn't aware I could use the URL helpers without calling the model. Since I don't need the weight of link_to, I ended up changing to
url_for(post.link_path)
instead of manually building up using string interpolation and that seems to work as expected.
I would like to create custom SEO friendly routes similar to what is used by http://realestate.com.au For example the following page is shown by google when the search term "real estate melbourne" is used:
www.realestate.com.au/buy/in-melbourne,+vic+3000/list-1
I would like use the following format. mysite.com/trips/search/melbourne-to-sydney/01-01-2011
I have configured the routes in my routes.rb file to get it to pick up the correct parameters when a url is entered is this format.
routes.rb
match '/trips/search(/:fl(-to-:tl(/:tripdate)))' => 'trips#someaction'
My question is how do I setup a form in rails 3 to send a GET request using the above url structure. I have tried playing around with to_params though it seems to then change all my edit, show links etc which is not intended. I could build the link using javascript though I guess this would be a hacky option and the site would not work if javascript was disabled.
Is there a neat way to be able to create a GET submit form in Rails 3.1? The fields are select lists containing name and ids.
Thanks for your help.
This will help you immensely with the friendly URL portion
http://norman.github.com/friendly_id/file.Guide.html
https://github.com/norman/friendly_id
We have been trying to implement shortcodes on an ASP.NET MVC web app that allow users to uniquely invoke a given article/page using an assigned short code.
For e.g.: www.mysite.com/power would map to an actual URL: www.mysite.com/Power/Home/.
I have created various routes throughout the site that map these shortcodes to various actions and controllers within the application. From a shortcode/route point of view, everything is working great.
I, however, noticed a couple of interesting things. I have hyperlinks that I use Url.Action method to generate the URL pointing pages. Many of these pages also have short codes associated with them. For e.g.: I have a link that says:
Go to Power page
This is a page that also has the previously mentioned short-code assigned to it. When I use Url.Action, I ideally expect it to create a link as /Power/Home/Index or /Power/Home, but since I also have a route constraint mapped to it, it now generates the link as /power.
Is there a way I can just use the actual link URL when generating links? I only want short-codes when I am sending out emails etc. I want the site to generate actual URLs.
This may or may not be possible, but I wanted to see if there were any ideas out there that I could use.
Anup
Index and Home are likely defined in your route table as defaults for the Action and Controller element. When you generate the Url it wont include the defaults if they aren't needed.
You could write your own Action overload or helper, which would allow you to take more direct control of the generated URL or action link. You could approach it from two different ways: 1) a helper to generate short-code specific urls and links, and/or 2) a helper to generate the full url and/or link. If Url.Action is returning the short-code version due to your routing configuration, I'd think a good place to start would be the second option, creating a helper/extension method that will generate the full url for you.
Here's how I solved this:
Instead of naming a route with short code to point to the action url, I made the route point to a different Controller action which would then redirect to the actual route that I want it to.
For e.g.: Originally I had the code "power" defined in the route table such that it would point to www.mysite.com/Power/Home.
Now instead of pointing it to that action - Index, controller - Home, area - Power, I make it resolve to: action - Power, Controller - Home, Area - ShortCode.
In the controller now, I simply do a RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { Area = "Power" });
This ensures that the actual links to /Power/Home do not resolve to the shortcode "power".
This is a simple fix increased the work by a little bit, but works like a charm.