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Thierry Lam
Thierry Lam

Reputation: 46264

How do I validate restful parameters in rails at the routing level?

I currently have the following restful url:

/questions/2011/05/

My route for questions is:

match 'questions/:year/:month/' => 'Questions#month'

How can I validate the above year and month parameters at the route level so that:

  1. year and month are integers
  2. min/max length of year = 4
  3. min/max length of month = 2

In django, I can do the above with the following line:

url(r'^questions/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{2})/$', 'questions.views.month'),

I'm looking through the rails guide and googling around and I cannot find the corresponding functionality at the routing level. Is the above meant to be done at the controller level?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2628

Answers (1)

Gazler
Gazler

Reputation: 84150

You are looking for the constraints option to the match method options hash.

match 'questions/:year/:month/' => 'questions#month', :constraints => {:year => /\d{4}/, :month => /\d{2}/}

Guide | APIDock Documentation

Upvotes: 4

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