On 12/02/2010 04:00 PM, MOLTEN wrote:
Okay, I've been doing some looking around and it looks like using the
redirect helper is what I need. Does this look it would work?
resources :movies
match "/:category/:movie" => redirect("netflix.com/search?category=%
{category}&name=%{movie}")
Why do you want to realize this with rails? As far as i can see, you can
realize what you want to do with apache's mod_rewrite.
Cheers,
Jan
I don't exactly know what document to put this kind of code in though,
or in what context :(. The only point of the site would be to preform
that code though, like the site is extremely plain and basic. I don't
need statistics or anything (yet). A counter for the amount of
redirects would be nice though. How would I make a very basic app that
is just able to complete this code? There's a tiny part covering this
on railscasts.com, but he doesn't show making the actual app, just
using this little piece within it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply :)
On Dec 2, 6:07 am, MOLTEN<vincent.ciarav...@gmail.com> wrote:
It looks like you may not have seen the beginning of this post, let me
just repost what may not have showed on ruby-forum.com:
"Is it possible to make a site that only preforms a redirect to
another
site? Here's an example:
Let's just say that a netflix.com URL to a movie is something like
netflix.com/search?category=Fantasy&name=Heroes&blahtechnical-stuff"
I kinda thought about that, but I think one of the main parts of the
site I'm trying to do is that it converts and substitutes things from
my site to something on the site I'm redirecting to. For example:
In netflixit.com/fantasy/heroes...
netflixit.com converts to netflix.com/search?
/fantasy/ converts to category=Fantasy
/heroes/ converts to&name=Heroes
So what I need it to do is both redirect and transform some of the
stuff. There will only and always be 2 sections, such /category/
title/, so that may make it easier. If a user doesn't put the correct
amount of sections, I'll just take them to the home page
netflixit.com, or whatever.
On Dec 2, 5:54 am, Robert Walker<li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
MOLTEN wrote in post #965662:
Could you make a really simple app in Rails at say the domain
netflixit.com that allows people to just type in like netflixit.com/
fantasy/heroes and be instantly directed to the netflix version? So, I
guess it has to convert and change the URL, but I don't know how. The
website would be pretty much blank. The only thing it would be used
for is automatically redirecting to the netflix site. The idea is just
to give people an easier way to find something in a database type site
if they already know what they are looking for.
This sounds like it would be very easy, but I'm still a beginner in
Rails. I don't even know the correct term for what this would be
called - might be easier to find information if I did :D
So, does anyone know any tutorials that show how to do this, or at
least know the technical term for this so I can do my own searching?
There are already many sites that do exactly this bit.ly, j.mp,
tinyurl.com, etc.
Yes, these sites do this for the express purpose of shortening the URL,
but what you're describing is really the same thing. Do a Google search
for URL shortening scripts and see how they work. That should get you
started.
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