Question

I want to implement tags in my Rails application but I’m having trouble with one specific feature of that implementation. You see I want to make it possible for users to specify multiple tags in the url scheme, something like http://domain/tags/:id1/:id2/.... Has anyone implemented something like this in Rails or know how to do it?

Answer 1

You want something called “Route Globbing”:

match 'tags/*tag_ids' => 'tags#lots_of_tags'

Then in lots_of_tags action you’d have params[:tag_ids] array of provided tag ids or a string in form of id1/id2 (not sure which one, you should test it by yourself).

More info on this in rails guides: