What I want to do is take a url string (from a file,db,form field,...) and turn it into a hash. For example: string = ''proto://host.com/posts/show/10?user=joe'' url_to_hash(string) #=> {:controller => ''posts'', :action => ''show'', :id => 10, :user => ''joe''} Does rails have anything like this already built in, or a simple way of doing this? If not: How does rails take the url and create the params[] hash? On line 458 in routing.rb in the rails source there is a line "hash = recognize_path(path)" which looks like it MIGHT be doing the same thing that I want. I just can''t figure out how to access that function to test this. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.