Rails - Mar 2008 - Make routes with e-mail address

Hi

I have a RESTful controller that works when using a numeric ID. Now I
would like to accept user login names as ID and for some of the cases
this is an e-mail address. In short it boils down to routing the
request URL

GET /users/erik-O5WfVfzUwx8@public.gmane.org
DELETE /users/erik-O5WfVfzUwx8@public.gmane.org

to

:controller => :users, :action => :show
:controller => :users, :action => :delete

And so on. Does anyone know how to do this. Grateful for any insight
on this.

/Erik

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There''s no reason why you couldn''t just pass those as the ids
to the
url helpers, but you need to update your controller

user = User.find(params[:id])
to
user = User.find_by_email(params[:id])

On Mar 18, 1:18 pm, Erik Lindblad <e...-gTO0lQh45js@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a RESTful controller that works when using a numeric ID. Now I
> would like to accept user login names as ID and for some of the cases
> this is an e-mail address. In short it boils down to routing the
> request URL
>
> GET /users/e...-O5WfVfzUwx8@public.gmane.org
> DELETE /users/e...-O5WfVfzUwx8@public.gmane.org
>
> to
>
> :controller => :users, :action => :show
> :controller => :users, :action => :delete
>
> And so on. Does anyone know how to do this. Grateful for any insight
> on this.
>
> /Erik
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Hi and thanks for the input. The problem was that I wanted to use .xml
as :format which was not possible without customized routes. I did
some reading and came up with a solution which I post if anyone else
has a similar problem:

  map.connect "customers/:login.:format",
              :controller => "customers",
              :action => "show",
              :conditions => {:method => :get},
              :login => /\b[\w.%-]+@[\w.%-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}/

Kindest regards

Erik

On 18 Mar, 23:48, "ESPN...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<ESPN3.DL-
Community...-xX8xgfAcNKEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> There''s no reason why you couldn''t just pass those as the
ids to the
> url helpers, but you need to update your controller
>
> user = User.find(params[:id])
> to
> user = User.find_by_email(params[:id])
>
> On Mar 18, 1:18 pm, ErikLindblad<e...-gTO0lQh45js@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > I have a RESTful controller that works when using a numeric ID. Now I
> > would like to accept user login names as ID and for some of the cases
> > this is an e-mail address. In short it boils down to routing the
> > request URL
>
> > GET /users/e...-O5WfVfzUwx8@public.gmane.org
> > DELETE /users/e...-O5WfVfzUwx8@public.gmane.org
>
> > to
>
> > :controller => :users, :action => :show
> > :controller => :users, :action => :delete
>
> > And so on. Does anyone know how to do this. Grateful for any insight
> > on this.
>
> > /Erik
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