Rails - Mar 2006 - Rails redirect/jump script?

I''m looking for some advice on how to write a jump script - something
that will look up a url in my database and redirect a cleaner url to
the one in the database.

For example:
url: http://www.amazon.com
jump url: http://www.mysite.com/jump/a

On 3/14/06, Michael Nguyen <dyn4mik3@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''m looking for some advice on how to write a jump script -
something
> that will look up a url in my database and redirect a cleaner url to
> the one in the database.
>
> For example:
> url: http://www.amazon.com
> jump url: http://www.mysite.com/jump/a
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Should be pretty easy.

class Jump < ActiveRecord::Base
  # name - string
  # url - string
end

class JumpController < ApplicationController
  def jump
    redirect_to_url Jump.find_by_name(params[:id]).url
  end
end

Obviously that''s very basic and has no error handling, but you can
just make whatever changes you need.  Then you can do
<%= link_to ''Amazon'', :controller =>
''jump'', :action => ''jump'', :id =>
''a'' %>

Store some more info like the link name (amazon) and the jump name (a)
in the database if you''d like.  You could throw the jump method in a
main controller or use routes so that the URLs appear as
http://mysite.com/jump/a

Pat

Thanks, just what I was looking for - didn''t know about the
redirect_to_url.

On 3/14/06, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Michael Nguyen <dyn4mik3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I''m looking for some advice on how to write a jump script -
something
> > that will look up a url in my database and redirect a cleaner url to
> > the one in the database.
> >
> > For example:
> > url: http://www.amazon.com
> > jump url: http://www.mysite.com/jump/a
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
>
> Should be pretty easy.
>
> class Jump < ActiveRecord::Base
>   # name - string
>   # url - string
> end
>
> class JumpController < ApplicationController
>   def jump
>     redirect_to_url Jump.find_by_name(params[:id]).url
>   end
> end
>
> Obviously that''s very basic and has no error handling, but you can
> just make whatever changes you need.  Then you can do
> <%= link_to ''Amazon'', :controller =>
''jump'', :action => ''jump'', :id =>
''a'' %>
>
> Store some more info like the link name (amazon) and the jump name (a)
> in the database if you''d like.  You could throw the jump method in
a
> main controller or use routes so that the URLs appear as
> http://mysite.com/jump/a
>
> Pat
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