Rails route not working - not sure why

Question

Having a routing issue, should be really simple but seems straightforward and just not working:

match '/api/get-locations-by-distance/:latitude/:longitude' => 'api#get_locations_by_distance'

with this call:

http://localhost:3000/api/get-locations-by-distance/34.035645/-118.233434

thx for any ideas

edit #1
If I update it to the following:

match '/api/get-locations-by-distance/:latitude/:longitude/:stub' => 'api#get_locations_by_distance'

and

http://localhost:3000/api/get-locations-by-distance/34.035645/-118.233434/stub

It still doesn't work.

edit #2
I tried adding the :format => false but this doens't seem to help either.

match '/api/get-locations-by-distance/:latitude/:longitude' => 'api#get_locations_by_distance', :format => false

with

http://localhost:3000/api/get-locations-by-distance/34.035645/-118.233434

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '12 at 15:50

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It thinks that .233434 is format

answered Apr 04 '12 at 15:50

mikdiet

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hmm...shoot, what could be workaround? maybe adding some unecessary piece at end like `.233434/fill`? – timpone Apr 04 '12 at 16:04
You can try to use constraints, like `match '...', :longitude => /[+-]?\d+\.\d+/` – mikdiet Apr 04 '12 at 16:40
thx, did this in conjuction with constraints in @Tilo answer. – timpone Apr 04 '12 at 17:19
also for removing .json in the request, I set `:defaults => { :format => 'json' }` in routes.rb – timpone Apr 05 '12 at 15:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 17:04

It's like Mik_Die said - the . is the delimiter for the format in Rails.

Here is a work-around: you can specify your own segmentation constraint.

match '/api/get-locations-by-distance/:latitude/:longitude' => 'api#get_locations_by_distance' , 
       :constraints => { :latitude => /\d+\.\d+/ , :longitude  => /\d+\.\d+/ }

Rails route not working - not sure why

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