Tomasz Romanowski wrote: > I'm trying to work with an existing Oracle schema which of course does > not follow the Rails conventions for table/column names or primary key > types. I used Scaffold to get everything going. I got the table name and > the column names set up and I can retrieve the records correctly. > However I cannot get the RESTful URLs to work, for Show or Edit. I > nailed it down to the issue with the identifier not being numeric. When > I update the primary key column - which is VARCHAR2(32) - to contain > integers then all URL issues disappear and I am able to Show, Edit and > Update. But when I fall back the original values I get "XXX_url failed > to generate..." errors. Any ideas how to get around this? > Tom
Is it possible that you're existing primary key values will need to be URL escaped in order to produce valid URLs? Do they contain spaces or other special characters that are not permitted in URLs? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
