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Inserting ID to URL

Gene Smith Profile... about 1 month ago Authority 0 Posting Rating 0 Sign in to rate this post	I am creating a tinyurl clone based off of Robby Rusell’s Rubyurl. The purpose of the app is to not only shrink the size of a URL, but to also track how the new URL is being used. For example, if I wanted to create a new tiny URL to be used on behalf of one of my clients, I’d want to somehow pass a client ID to the new tiny URL so that it would look something like this: www.rubyurlclone.com/clientID/random_token Question: how do I insert that clientID? Having a hard time wrapping my brain around this one. Thanks! n’cho

Raul Rubio Profile... about 1 month ago Authority 12 Posting Rating 100 Sign in to rate this post	Well, doing anything with how your routes are generated would be handled in the routes.rb file. A simple example(not realistic without more detailed info): in routes.rb: map.connect ’:clientID/:random_token ’, :controller => ‘my_controller’, :action => ‘my_action’ in view: link_to ‘my_link’, :controller => ‘my_controller’, :action => ‘my_action’, :clientID => params[:client_id], :random_token => params[:random_token] I hope this gets you headed down the right path.

E. James O'Kelly Profile... about 1 month ago Authority 75 Posting Rating 97 Sign in to rate this post	I would map a root dispatch_controller to root (/) and glob the routes, the first being client id, the second being the generated token