Question

My problem is i want to remove the querystring part of this URL and make it clean.

http://staging.mysite.com/mycontroller?name=/philippines/about-manila

currently i have MyController.index() and I parse the name parameter in this method.

What i would eventually want is this :

http://staging.mysite.com/mycontroller/philippines/about-manila

the parameter part 'philippines/about-manila' can have arbitrary number of parameters, like

http://staging.mysite.com/mycontroller/philippines/about-manila/people

How can i do this in routes?

Answer 1

It sounds like you want route globbing. If you use:

map.my_route '/mycontroller/*parts',
             :controller => :mycontroller,
             :action => :index

and then go to the URL http://staging.mysite.com/mycontroller/philippines/about-manila/people, then your mycontroller controller’s index action will be called, and params[:parts] will contain the array ["philippines", "about-manila", "people"].