0

on my root page, I have an index action that lists everything from the images model.

in the index action there are 3 filters you can apply to the list that will only show whatever matches the filter criteria. These parameters show up in the URL like this when the select boxes are selected and filter is clicked: 

http://localhost:3000/gender=m&height=62&weight=130

How can I make it so, the URL will rewrite to:

http://localhost:3000/m/62/130/

These values are attributes from the images model, stored in the gender, height and weight columns. or, better yet, rewrite to something like this 

http://localhost:3000/men/62-inches/130-lbs/

Here's what I tried, putting this in the routes: match "/:gender/:height/:weight", :controller => "images", :action => "index", :conditions => { :method => :get }, via: 'get'

model:

class Image < ActiveRecord::Base

  validates :gender, :measure_type, presence: true

  validates :image_location, presence: true, uniqueness: true

  validates :weight, length: {maximum: 3}



  has_attached_file :photo, styles: {

  small: '240x300'

  }

end

my routes.rb:

Images::Application.routes.draw do

     # match "/:gender/:height/:weight", :controller => "images", :action => "index", :conditions => { :method => :get }

     get 'images', to: redirect('/')

     match 'upload' => 'images#new',  :as => 'new_image_path',   via: 'get'

     match '/upload', :to => 'images#create', :via => :post, :as => :post_upload

     root "images#index"
 end

index.html.erb

<h1>Images</h1>
  <%= form_tag root_path, method: :get do %>

  <%= select_tag "gender", options_for_select(["m", "w"], params[:gender]) %>

  <%= select_tag "height", options_for_select((60..70).to_a.map{|s| ["#{s} inches", s]}, selected: params[:height]), :prompt => "all" %>

  <%= select_tag "weight", options_for_select((100..300).step(5).to_a.map{|s| ["#{s} lbs", s]}, selected: params[:weight]), :prompt => "all" %>  

  <%= submit_tag 'Filter', name: nil %>

<% end %>

<table>

  <tr>

    <th>Gender</th>

    <th>Height</th>

    <th>Weight</th>

    <th>Image location</th>

  </tr>

<% @images.each do |image| %>

  <tr>

    <td><%= image.gender %></td>

    <td><%= image.height %></td>

    <td><%= image.weight %></td>

    <td><%= image.image_location %></td>


  </tr>

<% end %>

</table>

images_controller.rb

class ImagesController < ApplicationController

   def index

     @images= Image.where(gender: params[:gender], height: params[:height], 

                                    weight: params[:weight])
   end
end

Update 1:

I'm starting to think it might involve doing something in the routes like get '/', to: redirect('/params[gender]/params[height]/params[weight]')

Update 2:

I think I solved this, found the answer after hours searching in this post- Ruby on Rails: How to redirect page based on post params in search_field?

Community
  • 1
  • 1
user2180552
  • 39
  • 6
  • and your current solution is giving you an error? – dax Dec 14 '13 at 20:36
  • it does nothing, no error but the URL looks exactly the same as if that line didn't exist in my routes. – user2180552 Dec 14 '13 at 20:38
  • does the page reload when you click filter or are you doing it with ajax or something? – dax Dec 14 '13 at 20:42
  • the page reloads when the filter button is clicked, which passes those params to the controller which sets the Images.where query to set the variable @images to whatever is returned from the model. no javascript or ajax involved. – user2180552 Dec 14 '13 at 20:50

1 Answers1

0

make the images route definition something like this

resources :images do    
  get "(gender/:gender)(/height/:height)(/weight/:weight)", :action => :index, :on => :collection
end
nickcen
  • 1,682
  • 10
  • 10