MOLTEN wrote in post #965822:
> match "/:category/:movie" => redirect("http://netflix.com/search?
> category=%{category}&movie=%{movie}")
>
> The only problems so far are if a category or movie has a space in it,
> then I get an error "bad URI(is not URI?):" since it tries to go to
> the site with a space still in the URL. How do I substitute spaces
> inside symbols with something like a "+"? It has to be before it gets
> redirected though. I'd like to be able to just type like netflixit.com/
> dramatic comedy/heroes and it automatically turn the space into a "+"
> right before it redirects, instead of manually typing the "+" in
> netflixit.com/dramatic+comedy/heroes, which works correctly. So, I
> guess before the URL a person types in gets to match
> "/:category/:movie", it has to replace spaces with "+".
If you want to do anything useful with this route then you need to
create a controller:
routes.rb
----------------------
match "/:category/:movie" => "redirector#search"
redirector_controller.rb
----------------------
def search
# Build your URL
url =
CGI::escape("netflix.com/search?category=#{params[:category]}&name=#{params[:movie]}&blahtechnical-stuff")
# Do anything else you want before redirecting
# Redirect to the constructed URL
redirect_to(url)
end
Note: This may be a horrible implementation and may not be suitable for
production. Just here to illustrate what sorts of things you can do once
you get into an actual controller rather than trying to rely solely on
the routes file.
P.S. As aluded to earlier Rails may not be the best framework for what
you're trying to do unless there's much more that the application will
need to do. A Sinatra or simple Rack application may be all you need and
would be considerably more efficient for this purpose.
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