understand new mongo id and use it with iron-router

Question

i have a simple post route that looks for the post _id. The problem is that the pathFor helper creates a path like this:

ObjectID(\"52         


        

Answer 1

You need to change the pathFor 'post' to pass the hex representation of the ObjectId 52e16453431fc2fba4b6d6a8 instead of ObjectId('52e16453431fc2fba4b6d6a8')

Try something like this pathFor 'post' _id=this._id.toHexString

Once you are passing the hex string, you can use this in your router

return Posts.findOne({ _id: new Meteor.Collection.ObjectID(this.params._id)});