Comments on: Reconstructing Request URIs in Rails

By: Mr Frosti

Mr Frosti — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:34:53 +0000

@Matt @Ilya

I think this can be simplified by using the request.request_uri method, as Matt suggested, then chopping off the controller name prefix as Ilya points out.

In my controller, I set params[:source] equal to the following:

request.request_uri[/\/#{controller_name}\/(.*)/,1]

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:49:44 +0000

Kris, it sounds like your routes are not catching encoded urls. To handle this case, you might have to do manual overrides, or have a catch all such as:
route/:params, :params => /.*/

Last but not least, try moving Apache and/or any reverse proxies out of the way to see if they’re the ones causing this behavior.

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:45:15 +0000

I’m trying to do this project for school… an example social bookmarking site. Right now I use a bookmarklet that submits to a “save” action like so (pseudocode):

mysite.com/links/save/ExampleURIencodedURL/ExampleURIencodedTitle

My routes fill pulls the two params, URL and title, and enters them into the DB. If I enter the code above how it is, it works just fine. I submits “ExampleURIencodedURL” into the URL field and “ExampleURIencodedTitle” into the title field.

However, when I try to submit an encoded URL structure, it doesn’t work. For example:

mysite.com/links/save/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com/Google%20Page%20Title

doesn’t work, and it throws a “Page you are looking for doesn’t exist” error. Do you have any tips as to what I’m doing wrong? I’ll check back on this blog post later to see if anyone has any answers. Thanks.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:33:36 +0000

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By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:36:01 +0000

Matt, indeed, that’s another way to do it. Except, if you look at REQUEST_URI, you will want to chop the other end of the string. Either one could work and your approach may be easier in most situations!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:43:10 +0000

I might be missing something but can’t you use @request.request_uri or @request.env['REQUEST_URI']?

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/AbstractRequest.html#M000239