Rails - Jul 2008 - Routes

Hi there,
I''m having an issue with routes I frankly dont get.
I have a controller named map which takes in a hash string and converts
that to an actual url, works great

so localhost:3000/f3gg or whatever works fine

now, I have a controller which I want to use to add some records (needs
to go through AJAX)

I want two strings, from and to but nevermind that for now since I''m
too
stupid to even get one string working


my routes.rb look like this

  map.connect '':controller/:action/:id.:format''
  map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''
  map.connect '':map'', :controller=>''map'',
:action=> ''index''
  map.connect '':from'',
:controller=>''share'', :action=>
''index''
  map.connect '''', :controller => "map"

the map one in the middle works fine, the controller looks like this:
(cut out all the irrelevant stuff)

class MapController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @map = getmap
  end
  def getmap
    if params[''map''] then
     @map =  params[''map'']
     end
  end
end

now, for the "share" one I cant for the life of me get any values out
of

class ShareController < ApplicationController
  def index
     if params[''from''] then
      @map =  params[''from'']
    else
      @map = ''no params''
     end
  end
end

i''ve tried

http://localhost:3000/share/  - outputs no params
http://localhost:3000/share/index - ouputs no params
http://localhost:3000/share/index/[anything] - outputs no params
http://localhost:3000/share/[anything] - outputs "Exception caught -
Action not found"
but I dont want it to think its an action i want it to take the url
value, like it does in the maps one

any help with this would be greatly appreciated, and yes im not a very
experienced ROR developer.
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Johan Mickelin wrote:
> I want two strings, from and to but nevermind that for now since
I''m too
> stupid to even get one string working
How is assert_routing working out for you?
> my routes.rb look like this
> 
>   map.connect '':controller/:action/:id.:format''
>   map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''
>   map.connect '':map'',
:controller=>''map'', :action=> ''index''
>   map.connect '':from'',
:controller=>''share'', :action=>
''index''
>   map.connect '''', :controller => "map"
The router drops thru each connect, in order, looking for an adequate match. 
Because you have a controller called Share, the /share routes matches 
'':controller...'' prematurely.

Always put the generic routes _below_ the specific routes.

After all this works, name your routes. I don''t think Rails has a
reason not to
name all routes:

   map.from_share '':from'',
:controller=>''share'', :action=>
''index''

Now you can use from_share_url in your source, instead of reassembling the url 
with url_for.

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