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I am changing my site over from Google App Engine to rails and I would like to keep my place in google search. Currently my site uses a URL /page?pid=microsoft-interview-questions to access the Microsoft subsection of interview questions. How would I create a route that can send this to '/tags/:id' where :id would be microsoft in this case?

Teddy
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  • Do you want to keep the existing routes, or do you want to send to "tags"? Or both? – Jesse Wolgamott Aug 02 '10 at 21:39
  • Not quite clear what you're asking. You want to receive this: "/tags/page?pid=microsoft-interview-questions" with "page?pid=microsoft-interview-questions" to be the :id parameter? – mark Aug 02 '10 at 21:39
  • Sorry for not being clear, I would like `/page?pid=microsoft-interview-questions` to go to :controller => tags, :action => show for the tag titled microsoft. – Teddy Aug 02 '10 at 21:44
  • It looks like you could deploy rails on Google App Engine... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3278745/ruby-on-rails-app-on-google-app-engine – ckrailo Aug 02 '10 at 22:14

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something like this should work (in routes.rb):

map.connect '/page?pid=:number', :controller => 'tags', :action => 'show'

see routes reference

  • The only problem with that is that I don't know how to parse out the '-interview-questions' after the tag name. – Teddy Aug 02 '10 at 21:44
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In addition to josh's answer I'll put this here for formatting:

# your controller

def show
  @subject = Subject.find my_stripped_id


private
def my_stripped_id
  params[:id].sub(/-interview-questions/, '')
end
mark
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  • This takes care of the logic part of distilling the id. It seems though, that because of the ? it is passing the parameter as pid instead of id – Teddy Aug 02 '10 at 22:44