I am trying to figure out how to submit a search query get variables as /search/query instead of /search?search=query. Any ideas?
Define route in your routes.rb
map.search "/search/:search", :controller => "search", :action => "index", :conditions => { :method => :get }
restart server and check.
for more info ref Module ActionController::Routing
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I've just added a CMS to my rails 2.2.2 app. I want to have it set up so that at the bottom of my routes i have a catch-all which shoves the entire path into a single parameter and then calls the cms controller, which then looks for a page matching that path
eg
http://mysite.com/something/about/foo
=> {:controller => "cms", :action => "show", :page => "something/about/foo"}
I can't figure out what options i need to add (if any) to stop it splitting on the slashes. Any ideas anyone? Remember this is rails 2. Thanks!
Just discovered the answer to this in the official rails api documentation (doh):
4.9 Route Globbing
Route globbing is a way to specify that a particular parameter should be matched
to all the remaining parts of a route. For example
map.connect 'photo/*other', :controller => 'photos', :action => 'unknown',
In my case:
map.connect "/*page", :controller => "cms", :action => "show"
means that
http://mysite.com/something/about/foo
=> {:controller => "cms", :action => "show", :page => ["something", "about", "foo"]}
which is fine as i can easily then join params[:page] to get the full path again.
thanks for reading :)
I've looked around for a while now, but I'm not sure how best to describe my request to google, so thought I'd ask here ;)
In rails, I know that when you nest restful routes, you generally get something like:
http://localhost/categories/1/articles/2
If you want something more meaningful, you can use slugs or friendly_id to get something like
http://localhost/categories/all-your-needs/articles/rock-out-with-this-article
(assuming you have unique names).
My question is, how can I remove the controller from the url rewriter so you get something like:
http://localhost/all-your-needs/rock-out-with-this-article
Is this possible?
Yes it is. You can use something like this:
Rails 2:
map.show_article ':category/:article', :controller => "articles", :action => "show"
Edit:
Ok. Here you have the urls for the other REST actions:
map.edit_article ':category/:article/edit', :controller => "articles", :action => "edit".
For update add :conditions => { :method => :post } to the previous one.
For delete, use the first one with :conditions => { :method => :delete }.
For new and create, you can use:
map.new_article ':category/new', :controller => "articles", :action => "new"
and for create the same but with :conditions => { :method => :post }. I hope I've been able to help you!
I have a custom route (if I am doing that correctly, this is the first time I have done this) that looks like this:
map.connect 'purchases/type/:type', :controller => 'purchases', :action => 'index'
so I want to create a link_to that would use that url /purchases/type/(somenumber)
or I am completely open for a better way to do it.
Edit:
I am trying to use a category (type) to filter on the index. So if I click the link that would be /purchases/type/1 that would show all the items from type 1. I dont want this in the show, and I could do it with /purchases/?type=1, but im trying to make the urls look better.
Untested but I believe this is what you want...
map.purchase_type 'purchases/type/:type', :controller => 'purchases', :action => 'index'
Then
link_to 'foo', purchase_type_path(:type => 'your_type')
Good luck.
Based on http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails-2.1/rails-routes.htm (section "named routes"), I'd try the following:
map.purchases_for_type 'purchases/type/:type', :controller => 'purchases', :action => 'index'
And I assume you'd then call it with link_to 'link text', purchases_for_type(#type_param)
For reference, I'll include the Rails3 way to do it:
match '/purchases/type/:type' => 'purchases#index', :as => "purchases_for_type", :via => "get"
Or better yet (RESTful):
match '/type/:type/purchases' => 'purchases#index', :as => "purchases_for_type", :via => "get"
You'd then call it with link_to 'link text', purchases_for_type(#type_param)
I am attempting to create a custom route in rails and am not sure if I am going about it in the right way. Firstly I have a RESTful resource for stashes that redirects to mystash as the controller:
map.resources :stashes, :as => 'mystash'
site.com/mystash goes to :controller => 'stashes', :action => 'show'
Which is what I want. Now is where it gets somewhat confusing. I would like to be able to add conditional params to this route. Ultimately I would like to have a route that looks like this:
site.com/mystash/zoomout/new/quiz_on/
I have places this in routes:
map.connect 'mystash/:zoom/:nav_option/:quiz',
:controller => 'stashes',
:action => 'show'
map.connect 'mystash/:zoom/:nav_option',
:controller => 'stashes',
:action => 'show'
map.connect 'mystash/:zoom',
:controller => 'stashes',
:action => 'show'
map.connect 'mystash',
:controller => 'stashes',
:action => 'show'
My routes have ended up looking like this in the browser:
site.com//mystash/zoomin?nav_option=New&quiz=quizon
and this is what one of my links looks like:
<%= link_to "In", stash_path("zoomin", :nav_option => #nav_option, :quiz => #quiz) %>
Any help is appreciated, I am pretty new to custom routes!
You should be giving these routes different names instead of the default, or you should be specifying your route with a hash and not a X_path call. For instance:
map.stash_zoom_nav_quiz 'mystash/:zoom/:nav_option/:quiz',
:controller => 'stashes',
:action => 'show'
map.stash_zoom_nav 'mystash/:zoom/:nav_option',
:controller => 'stashes',
:action => 'show'
Keep in mind that when you declare a named route, the parameters in the path must be specified in the X_path call with no omissions, and not as a hash.
link_to('Foo', stash_zoom_nav_quiz_path(#zoom, #nav_option, #quiz))
link_to('Bar', stash_zoom_nav_path(#zoom, #nav_option))
The alternative is to not bother with named routes and let the routing engine figure it out on its own:
link_to('Foo', :controller => 'stashes', :action => 'show', :zoom => #zoom, :nav_option => #nav_option, :quiz => #quiz)
If you're uncertain what routes are defined, or how to call them, always inspect the output of "rake routes" very carefully. You can also write functional tests for routes with the assert_routing method.
I am looking to do something similar a wordpress slug where I have a URL like this while maintaining RESTful routing:
http://foo.com/blog/2009/12/04/article-title
The reason I am interested in keep RESTFUL routing is that I am unable to use many plugins because I am using custom routes.
I have already done the RESTful appearance with:
map.connect '/blog/:year/:mon/:day/:slug',
:controller => 'posts', :action => 'show',
:year => /\d{4}/, :month => /\d{2}/,
:day => /\d{2}/, :slug => /.+/,
:requirements => { :year => /\d{4}/, :month => /\d{2}/, :day => /\d{2}/, :slug => /.+/ }
In order to write the links, I had to write custom link_to helpers to generate the proper URLs. I really would like to make this RESTful and have the link_to post_path( #post ) yield the URL above and the link_to edit_post_path(#post) ...article-title/edit
I also have :has_many => [:comments] and I would that to work as well. The link_to that I have tried looks like this:
'posts', :action => 'show', :year => recent_post.datetime.year.to_s,
:month => sprintf('%.2d', recent_post.datetime.mon.to_i),
:day => sprintf('%.2d', recent_post.datetime.mday.to_i),
:slug => recent_post.slug %>
and yields this (which isn't what I want):
http://foo.com/posts/show?day=30&month=11&slug=welcome-to-support-skydivers&year=2009
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Is it even possible to accomplish this?
I think it's not working because you're not using a custom route. I do this all of the time. I simply setup a simple custom route:
map.present_page '/blog/:year/:month/:day/:slug',
:controller => 'posts', :action => 'show'
Then you should be able to do:
present_page_path(:year => 2009,
:month => "December",
:day => "13",
:slug => "just-an-example")
The reason you're getting a query string is most likely because rails isn't making the connection to your route for whatever reason. Using a named route explicitly tells rails to use that route. Let me know if that solves it for you!
Here's how I went about this...
First, I'm not trying to use the route-generated url method. Also, I'm not going to the same extent as you in terms of checking formatting of the date parameters. Since I'm auto-generating the datestamps and the URL creation, I'm not concerned about format validity, I'm simply formatting a ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone object.
Let's start with the relevant route:
map.post_by_date 'content/:year/:month/:day/:slug',
:controller => 'posts',
:action => 'show_by_date_slug'
Since I didn't want to worry about argument formatting, or repetition, I created a helper method and included the helper in the relevant controller:
def pubdate_slug_url(post)
year = post.published_on.strftime('%Y')
month = post.published_on.strftime('%m')
day = post.published_on.strftime('%d')
url = "/" + ["content", year, month, day, post.slug].join("/")
return url
end
Finally, in my view, I simply call the method, passing in my Post object:
<h2><%= link_to post.headline, pubdate_slug_url(post) %></h2>
I end up with a url like: http://wallscorp.us/content/2009/12/06/links
Cheers.