Question

I want to implement a tracking pixel for inside an email.

The tracking pixel URL should look something like this:

http://example.com/__track.gif?id=XXXXXXX&u=XXXXX

Questions:

1. How do I create a route specifically for that?
2. while it says it’s .gif, I don’t actually want a gif file, as I want a rails controller to get called and be able to run a few methods when called, using the url params.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

Put the following in your routes.rb file:

match "/_track.gif" => "controller_name#action_name"

Replacing controller_name & action_name with those appropriate.

I recommend you read over the Rails Guide for routing, as match is noted in the very first section.