Question

I have an sms gateway which pushes me get-requests if a user replys an received sms.

# gateway pushes following fixed style get-params 
# to my server/reply_from_gateway-action: ?id=123456&answer=Test

# => http://myserver.aaa/reply_from_gateway?id=123456&answer=Test

And now I want to add following route, since the sms gateway has a defined get parameter structure:

get "deactivate_via_sms?id=:id&answer=:answer" => "reminders#deactivate_via_sms"
      :as => "deactivate_via_sms"

But that doesn’t work, can you help me?

Answer 1

You can pull CGI-style parameters out of params by hand in your controller, you don’t need (or want) them in the route:

get "deactivate_via_sms" => "reminders#deactivate_via_sms", :as => "deactivate_via_sms"

and then in RemindersController#deactivate_via_sms:

def deactivate_via_sms
    id     = params[:id]
    answer = params[:answer]
    #...
end