> 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?
Yup! Thanks! That's what it was! I had a few entries formatted like: XXX.DEFAULT.USER.834029834092830 I changed the primary key and it worked. Will figure out later how to handle it long-term. Robert Walker wrote: > 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.
