Rails - Feb 2005 - Routing: How do I use what is left from an URL

Hi,

I have this scenario. I have the full path of a page stored in the 
database (column ''path''). I want to be able to have very short
urls for
retrieving the pages, so i have this route in my map

map.connect ''-/:title'', :controller =>
''page'',
   :action => ''view_by_title'', :title => nil

so when I go to /-/PageTitle it gets me the page PageTitle. Pages can 
have additional path prefixes, so I can have categories. For example 
"/products" or "/articles/ruby/rails". Let''s say I
have lots of
categories and I have many articles in them. One is "Writing the 
simplest CMS that could possibly be useful with Ruby on Rails" or short 
"WTSCMSTCPBUWROR". It would have a path of
"/articles/ruby/rails" and
the title would be "WTSCMSTCPBUWROR". So the full url to retrieve this
article would be:

/-/articles/ruby/rails/WTSCMSTCPBUWROR

I don''t know how long the path is going to be. The page could lie in 
root or have several directory levels.

As soon as I try to use the above route I get a routing error. So what 
do I need to do to make this work? I would need something like this:


map.connect ''-/:title[/*]''

The [/*] would indicate additional optional url directories. The
"rest"
of the url.

Is this planned or is it already possible with routes? I know it is 
possible with mod_rewrite, but I think this shouldn''t be needed, right?

Sascha

Sascha Ebach wrote:
> /-/articles/ruby/rails/WTSCMSTCPBUWROR
> I don''t know how long the path is going to be. The page could lie
in
> root or have several directory levels.
> As soon as I try to use the above route I get a routing error.
I have a similar problem, and the only available solution to handle a 
variable number of slashes as of two days ago was to escape them, so 
your path becomes something like:

articles/ruby%2Frails%2FWTSCMSTCPBUWROR

Not nice, I know.

There is some commit in the trunk that enables Routes to deal with 
regexps. I haven''t looked at it closely yet. It may cope with this 
problem, I don''t know.

Ulysses: see? Another unsatisfied customer who wants
'':foo/:bar...''
mapping :)

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Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> articles/ruby%2Frails%2FWTSCMSTCPBUWROR
> 
> Not nice, I know.
No, that defeats the purpose of nice urls.
> There is some commit in the trunk that enables Routes to deal with 
> regexps. I haven''t looked at it closely yet. It may cope with this
> problem, I don''t know.
I have also seen the commit, but I don''t think it is usable yet. At the
moment routes seem to say "You can do anything you want to, as long as 
you don''t mess with the slashes..."

 > Ulysses: see? Another unsatisfied customer who wants
'':foo/:bar...''
 > mapping :)

Yeah, it would be very nice if the aforementioned were possible.

Sascha

On 19.2.2005, at 16:24, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
>
> Ulysses: see? Another unsatisfied customer who wants
'':foo/:bar...''
> mapping :)
Count me in, too. It''s an absolute requirement for a CMS with pretty, 
hierarchic url''s.

//jarkko

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> > Ulysses: see? Another unsatisfied customer who wants
'':foo/:bar...''
> > mapping :)
> 
> Count me in, too. It''s an absolute requirement for a CMS with
pretty,
> hierarchic url''s.
Me too.  I''ve only been playing with rails for two days and
I''ve
already run into this limitation myself.
-- 
Bob Aman

This may work! Just messing mind you :)

  map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''

  begin 
    map.recognise!
  rescue
    path = '':section/:a/:b/:c/:d''
    map.connect path, :controller => ''page'', :action =>
''read'', :title
=> ''home'', :a => nil, :b => nil, :c => nil, :d
=> nil
  end



On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:45:40 -0500, Bob Aman
<vacindak-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> > > Ulysses: see? Another unsatisfied customer who wants
'':foo/:bar...''
> > > mapping :)
> >
> > Count me in, too. It''s an absolute requirement for a CMS with
pretty,
> > hierarchic url''s.
> 
> Me too.  I''ve only been playing with rails for two days and
I''ve
> already run into this limitation myself.
> --
> Bob Aman
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