Rails - Dec 2005 - search engine friendly URL params?

I have a site which is a listing of realestate offerings, written 
currently in PHP.

With complicated .htaccess rules, going to the url 
site.com/listings/226/aid/29/ref/contact leads to the page 
listings/prop_view.php?id=226&aid=29&ref=contact... the beauty of this 
is that the link is SEO friendly and thus gains high rankings in the 
engines because they will reach it.

question is, how would I do this in rails so that I get the same url and 
not
site.com/listings/view/226?aid=29&ref=contact

I could write the link dynamicly (without helpers) in the view, but then 
would rails seperate these into :params? or would I have to do somthing 
else with the data to map it or connect it?

Thanks for helping a noob.

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On 12/30/05, CodeNinja <codeninja@gmail.com>
wrote:
> question is, how would I do this in rails so that I get the same url and
> not
> site.com/listings/view/226?aid=29&ref=contact
>
> I could write the link dynamicly (without helpers) in the view, but then
> would rails seperate these into :params? or would I have to do somthing
> else with the data to map it or connect it?
The config/routes.rb file allows you to set up custom routing (similar
to mod_rewrite in many respects). It works both ways, so it also
affects how URLs in links are formed when using the helper methods in
your templates.

http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/65

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John Wilger
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