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Sylar
Sylar

Reputation: 12072

Store hash values in url

Rails 5.0.0.rc1
Ruby 2.2.5 (can update to latest)

I'd like to think this is possible. I'm making a get request that when a field is selected then the user presses the next button, it goes to another page and that page's url looks like:

http://localhost:3000/food/r/new?utf8=%E2%9C%93&id=2&food=Apple&commit=Next

This looks ugly, to me. Could it be more nicer to look like this:

http://localhost:3000/food/r/new/<some_random_short_string/<name-of-page>

I'd imagine the some_random_short_string would be a hash then in the controller would have something like:

hash = params[:some_random_short_string]
hash[:food] #=> "Apple"
etc...

Not sure how to go about this. Any pointers, please?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 198

Answers (1)

Sylar
Sylar

Reputation: 12072

Rather than deleting my question, I'll answer it as I will come back to it one day.

'get' exposes data in the url so I went for post. No need for a hash just use params to store the values.

Once page is submitted, the url will look like: http://localhost:3000/food/r/new. In the controller, you use your params:

@selected_food = params[:food]

new.html.erb:

<%= @selected_food %> #=> Apple

Upvotes: 1

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