>>> The question comes up because - despite Rails's joyful abuse of >>> those >>> characters to delimit records > >> ??? > > An "URI" is an URL. Rails packs records into them like this: > > .../controller/action? > record[first_name]=norbert&record[last_name]=theNark > > The params method unravels them into params[:record] as a > convenience. But does > the industry in general support this use? or is it an artifact of > "browser > forgiveness"?
Don't know for sure, but I know that in the late 90's PHP used [] for this exact same thing. Still does I would assume. So if it's browser forgiveness it's something that has been going on since at least 1996. > And has anyone ever seen user-agents convert them to "record > first_NAME " for no > reason? No. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
