Rails - Oct 2005 - very pretty urls

hi,
enjoyed playing with routes.rb - but hit a problem i could not solve.
would be nice, if anybody could have a look at this.

i would like to create pretty urls which reflect a
hierarchical structure of cascaded ''topics'' of invinite depth.

say: /main/foo/bar/baz/top

foo/bar/baz is the part of the url which grows dependent on the 
position. 

my routes.rb looks like:
...
map.connect ''/:main/:middle/:xtop'', :controller =>
''start''
				:action => ''topic_view'',
				:main => :main,
				:xtop => :xtop
...

i setup links like this:

<%= link_to(topic.name, url_for(:main => topic.path.start_topic.name,
				:xtop => topic.path.end_topic.name,
				:middle => topic.path.middle) ) %>

whereas :middle = ''foo/bar/baz''

everythin works fine, - except the ''middle'' part in the url
gets
url-encoded (%2F), which disturbs..
http://localhost/topic/subtopic%2Fsubsub%2Fsubsubsub/endtopic

so, how to prevent this url-encoding?

greetings 

rene

On 26.10.2005, at 14.45, Rene Paulokat wrote:
>
> everythin works fine, - except the ''middle'' part in the
url gets
> url-encoded (%2F), which disturbs..
> http://localhost/topic/subtopic%2Fsubsub%2Fsubsubsub/endtopic
>
> so, how to prevent this url-encoding?
You can''t really do it like that. Why? Because the routing system has  
no way knowing when the middle part stops and xtop starts. The parts  
of the routes are separated by slashes so using slashes inside  
parameters is generally bound to cause problems. If you want to have  
the hierarchy you described, the path needs to be the last part of  
the url and you need to parse that part inside the action this url is  
passed to.

//jarkko

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Jarkko Laine
http://jlaine.net
http://odesign.fi



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