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path helper problem

#6126

Hi,
i'm expecting some problem with path helpers. Let me explain. I have some resource "issues" in my routes and would like to use helper with parameter issue_path("something"). Everything works fine if parameter does not contain dot(.) symbol, but for issue_path("some.thing") it will cause error like

ActionController::RoutingError in Issues#index

Showing /Users/alec/Documents/Projects/prj/app/views/issues/_issue.html.haml where line #30 raised:

No route matches {:controller=>"issues", :id=>"some.thing", :action=>"show"}

Reported by Alexey Poimtsev · December 7th, 2010 @ 09:01 PM

State: invalid
Milestone: none
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: Low

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  1. 2kan
    2kan

    I don't think that it is a bug. I think there is a reason why you can't use dots.

    If you are interested here is a regexp for such route:

    /\A\/issues\/([^\/.?]+)(?:\.([^\/.?]+))?\Z/

    Here are segments (for better understanding) for this route:

    segments: ["/issues/", /(?<id>\A[^/.?]+\Z)/, [".", /(?<format>\A[^/.?]+\Z)/]]

    I think you can't use dots because of format segment but i'm not sure, any ideas why dot is not allowed?

    December 8th, 2010 @ 02:30 PM

  2. 2kan
    2kan

    Yes, of course '.' is not allowed because it is separator for format.

    December 8th, 2010 @ 02:34 PM

  3. Alexey Poimtsev
    Alexey Poimtsev

    ok, but sometimes we need to send '.' in path, what about encode/escape dot symbol?

    December 8th, 2010 @ 02:38 PM

  4. Neeraj Singh
    Neeraj Singh
    • Importance changed from to Low

    In routes mention :format => false and then use your regex and then dot will be allowed.

    December 8th, 2010 @ 06:03 PM

  5. Todor Dragnev
    Todor Dragnev

    Similar to #6134 ?

    December 8th, 2010 @ 07:11 PM

  6. Alexey Poimtsev
    Alexey Poimtsev

    yep, looks similar

    December 9th, 2010 @ 09:57 AM

  7. Andrew White
    Andrew White
    • State changed from new to invalid

    And #5994 where I've listed some more tickets that have reported the same problem.

    February 9th, 2011 @ 06:50 AM