Is it possible to use a string containing the character "/" in a url?

Asked Jun 18 '15 at 06:17

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I have a model (Category) with a :name attribute, and I defined a route for it like this:

get ':name' => 'categories#show'

The problem is, some Categories have names containing the character "/". So if, for example, a Category is named "Drugs/Pharmacy", then the url is interpreted as categories#Drugs#Pharmacy, not categories#Drugs/Pharmacy.

Has anyone else ran into this problem? How could I get around this? I suppose I could slice that character from every url, but it would be cool if I could include it somehow.

edited Jun 18 '15 at 06:24

asked Jun 18 '15 at 06:17

Joe Morano

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Are you ok if you get like `categories#Drugs_Pharmacy` ? – Arup Rakshit Jun 18 '15 at 07:42
@ArupRakshit I guess that's one solution. Would that be easy to accomplish? – Joe Morano Jun 18 '15 at 07:47
Pass name value like I said from the place you are calling this _url_... – Arup Rakshit Jun 18 '15 at 07:49
try this `get ':name' => 'categories#show', :constraints => { :name => /[\/a-z]+/i }`.......... – Arup Rakshit Jun 18 '15 at 07:53
How are you getting *anchor*.. I have no idea? – Arup Rakshit Jun 18 '15 at 08:03
@ArupRakshit What do you mean by "anchor"? – Joe Morano Jun 19 '15 at 04:42
look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9251606/rails-3-1-3-using-anchor-attribute-with-link-to-tag-from-posts-index-to-posts-sh – Arup Rakshit Jun 19 '15 at 04:44

Is it possible to use a string containing the character "/" in a url?

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