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Specifying id in routes

#5280

I am trying to specify the id parameter in the new routes interface.

An example use is if I have a table of pages in a database, and I want to give one a fixed url, pointing to the standard show method with the entry's id.

So, if I want a one-off route for the privacy policy page (e.g. page 10), I would ideally want a route like this:

match "/privacy" => "pages#show#10", :as => "privacy_page"

The next best case would be:

match "/privacy" => "pages#show", :as => "privacy_page", :defaults => {:id => 10}

However, neither of these work and I am having to resort to:

match "/privacy(/:id)" => "pages#show", :as => "privacy_page", :defaults => {:id => 10}

I've looked through the source and don't think I'm missing anything obvious.

Thanks,
iHiD

Reported by iHiD · August 3rd, 2010 @ 12:43 AM

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Rohit Arondekar
- Assigned user set to Andrew White
- Importance changed from to Low
October 7th, 2010 @ 06:35 AM
Andrew White
- State changed from new to needs-more-info
Works as expected for me in 3.0.0:
```
  # Explicit
  match '/privacy', :to => 'pages#show', :as => :privacy, :via => :get, :defaults => { :id => 10 }

  # Shorthand
  get '/privacy' => 'pages#show', :id => 10
```
iHiD, can you confirm that it's fixed for you?
October 7th, 2010 @ 07:03 AM
Santiago Pastorino
- State changed from needs-more-info to open
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February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:58 PM
Santiago Pastorino
- State changed from open to stale
February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:58 PM