How to make links in rails hashed?

Question

in my rails app I'm using jQuery BBQ for hashchange deeplinking etc...

Here are my existing links in rails:

<%= link_to('View on Site ', project_topic_url(@project.id, @topic, :only_path => false),) %>

I have this working in a user_mailer that gets emailed out...

problem is this generated: http://www.site.com/project/1/topic/23

And What I want is: http://www.site.com/#/project/1/topic/23

Any ideas on how I can get the hash # in the url to be ajax, deeplinking friendly?

Thanks

Chuck Callebs · Answer 1 · 2011-04-27T19:22:54.600

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You could always create a helper method to handle this for you.

def project_topic_ajax(id, topic)
   "http://www.site.com/#/project/#{id}/#{topic.name}/#{topic.id}"
end

Then just call that instead of the default link helper.

Update: I found a solution for you.

<%= link_to "View on Site", "##{project_topic_url(@project.id, @topic)}" %>

It's cleaner, but not exactly what you were looking for I realize.

For absolute paths, it would look like this (a bit dirtier):

<%= link_to "View on Site", "http://www.site.com/##{project_topic_url(@project.id, @topic)}" %>

edited Apr 27 '11 at 19:22

answered Apr 27 '11 at 18:53

Chuck Callebs

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I could, just hoping there was perhaps a setting? I'd imagine this being a pretty common requirement? – AnApprentice Apr 27 '11 at 18:54
There's the `:anchor` tag which automatically adds a `#` to the end of your path. Other than that, I don't know of any configuration options or helpers that could help you achieve your goal. – Chuck Callebs Apr 27 '11 at 18:59
Thanks Chuck but the anchor tag is different as you mention – AnApprentice Apr 27 '11 at 18:59
Hmm, no go. That outputs: View on Site – AnApprentice Apr 27 '11 at 19:06
Try setting the `:only_path` tag to true (or remove it, as that's the behavior by default). Is there any reason why you need the full path for these links? – Chuck Callebs Apr 27 '11 at 19:07
@Chuck, ya I do need the full path as these are links inside of a user_mailer template being emailed out. – AnApprentice Apr 27 '11 at 19:09
I modified the answer to reflect that. It's the cleanest way I can think of to tackle the problem. – Chuck Callebs Apr 27 '11 at 19:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '12 at 12:26

bit late perhaps; but you could pack your entire routes file in a hash scope like so:

MyRails::Application.routes.draw do
  scope :hash, :path => "/#" do
    resources :project do
      resources :topic
      # ...
    end
    # ...
  end
end

With Rails 3.2.8, running rake routes it yielded the desired results.

Not sure how this would affect your views or jQuery-BBQ for that matter

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '11 at 19:35

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<%= link_to 'View on Site ', [project_topic_url(@project.id, @topic).gsub(/#{project_topic_path(@project.id, @topic)}/, ""), project_topic_path(@project.id, @topic)].joins("#") %>

And you'd better to wrap it as a helper

answered Apr 27 '11 at 19:35

fl00r

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