Rails - May 2006 - url parameter :id with slash (/) failed to route

Hi there,

My routes.rb is something like

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

However, when a url request likes
http://xxx/user/category/a/b

My intension is to call
:controller => ''user''
:action => ''category''
:id => ''a/b''

However, :id has slash in it (a/b) will make rails fail to route.
(apache fail, webrick works fine somehow)

It seems like rails will try to match route rule with
map.connect :controller/:action/:id/:others
but failed.

I know one solution is to call CGI.escape in link_to or url_for , like
link_to :controller => ''user'', :action =>
''category'', :id => CGI.escape
(category)

and unescape when I got it.
category = CGI.unescape(params[:category])

Any better solution ?
Thanks.

Gary
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Gary Lin wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> My routes.rb is something like
> 
> map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''
> 
> However, when a url request likes
> http://xxx/user/category/a/b
> 
> My intension is to call
> :controller => ''user''
> :action => ''category''
> :id => ''a/b''
> 
> However, :id has slash in it (a/b) will make rails fail to route.
> (apache fail, webrick works fine somehow)
> Thanks.
> 
> Gary
Rails routes really don''t like to do that.  I would recommend coming up
with a diiferent way to handle those id''s that doesn''t require
a slash.

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