Rails: 'match' function in routes.rb escaping slashes in url

Question

I am new to ruby and rails. Here in routes.rb i have added the following line:

match 'check/' => "home#index"

When i hit url with server running on port 3000:

localhost:3000/check/

it works fine, but if i give url

localhost:3000/////////////////check////////////////////

it also works fine which should not be the case. With url

localhost:3000/////////////check////d//////

it says

No route matches [GET] "/check/d"

It means it is escaping slashes, why this is happening and how to resolve it. Also help me to know if we can make urls using regular exressions on rails.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '12 at 06:49

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Regarding regular expressions in routes:

match '/:id' => 'posts#show', :constraints => {:id => /^\d/}

Will put a constraint on the id to be only digits.

answered Jul 19 '12 at 06:49

Erez Rabih

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thanks for this, but can you tell me about the above problem of slashes which is occuring – Paritosh Singh Jul 19 '12 at 06:57

Rails: 'match' function in routes.rb escaping slashes in url

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