I'd certainly prefer not to, but it is prescribed by the ARK standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Resource_Key
-Justin On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Hassan Schroeder < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:04 PM, digger250 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to escape a literal colon in the routes. If > I > > make a route like this: > > > > get '/thing:/:id' => 'things#show' > > > > then '/thing:/123' does not match on this route > > > > I've also tried '/thing\:/:id' and '/thing%3A/:id' none seem to work. > > > > Does anyone have any tips here? > > Yes - don't do that :-) > > See https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt, specifically Section 2.2 on > reserved characters. > > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] > http://about.me/hassanschroeder > twitter: @hassan > Consulting Availability : Silicon Valley or remote > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CACmC4yDceABV646sh%2BH5L4uWoW%3D1Scc2ucj6ta4tYLU_q8JmRg%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAGnAKfOwkVaD9BMUc3Q8At2ATKLEzPprmOUxW4yHCaTyRhr-hA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
