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

Alex Wayne wrote:
 >> Gary Lin wrote:
 >> My routes.rb is something like
 >> map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''
 >> However, when a url request likes
 >> http://xxx/user/category/a/b

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

The solution is here:
http://blog.chanezon.com/articles/2005/05/20/rails-tip-create-a-route- 
with-an-arbitrary-number-of-parameters

==mmell