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| author | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2010-08-16 01:10:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2010-08-16 01:14:09 +0200 |
| commit | a1fdf402c02f4ae8ef0b49c2481298565620efa6 (patch) | |
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routing guide: wildcard segments are quite flexible, go beyond the simple use case
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile index d92c66cfd2..457b6804b1 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile @@ -516,6 +516,22 @@ match 'photos/*other' => 'photos#unknown' This route would match +photos/12+ or +/photos/long/path/to/12+, setting +params[:other]+ to +"12"+ or +"long/path/to/12"+. +Wildcard segments do not need to be last in a route. For example + +<ruby> +match 'books/*section/:title' => 'books#show' +</ruby> + +would match +books/some/section/last-words-a-memoir+ with +params[:section]+ equals +"some/section"+, and +params[:title]+ equals +"last-words-a-memoir"+. + +Techincally a route can have even more than one wildard segment indeed, the matcher assigns segments to parameters in an intuitive way. For instance + +<ruby> +match '*a/foo/*b' => 'test#index' +</ruby> + +would match +zoo/woo/foo/bar/baz+ with +params[:a]+ equals +"zoo/woo"+, and +params[:b]+ equals +"bar/baz"+. + h4. Redirection You can redirect any path to another path using the +redirect+ helper in your router: |