Sorry about that confusing title 🙂 I have a resource, ComatosePage (used in the comatose cms plugin), which has a table called comatose_pages which has a field ‘full_path’ which has values like this: "en/home/logged-in/subscriber/school-top" to set up a route so that i can use this full_path field to load a ComatosePage from the db, instead of the standard id field, so that this url:
/comatose_admin/en/home/logged-in/subscriber/school-top
loads the comatose_admin controller’s edit action, passing everything after comatose_admin/ through as a parameter, ie generates this for rails:
Parameters: {:controller => "comatose_admin", :action => "edit", :full_path => "en/home/logged-in/subscriber/school-top"}
The complication lies in the fact that the string is broken up with forward slashes, which is going to confuse routes, i think. Can i set up routes to take everything after “comatose_admin/” and put it into a single parameter?
You can use wildcards in your routes that will match forward slashes. Try something like this:
Then
params[:full_path]should contain the rest of the request path.See Route Globbing