Rails routing with a parameter that includes slash(/)

Question

I would like to set the routings as follows

• /url/http://google.com to urls controller and index action.

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Answer 1

get ':klass/:id', constraints: { klass: /\D*/ }

Answer 2

Or you can use Route Globbing:

match "urls/*url" => "urls#index"

You can access the values in your controller via params[:url]

Reference: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html Search for "Route Globbing"

Answer 3

You could do something similar to

match "urls/:url" => "urls#index", :constraints => {:url => /.*/}

in Rails 2.3 which may work in Rails 3 to allow you to match the / in the :url (although, I can't test this at the moment.)