Ruby on Rails

It looks like you may not have seen the beginning of this post, let me
just repost what may not have showed on ruby-forum.com:

"Is it possible to make a site that only preforms a redirect to
another
site? Here's an example:

Let's just say that a netflix.com URL to a movie is something like
netflix.com/search?category=Fantasy&name=Heroes&blahtechnical-stuff"

I kinda thought about that, but I think one of the main parts of the
site I'm trying to do is that it converts and substitutes things from
my site to something on the site I'm redirecting to. For example:

In netflixit.com/fantasy/heroes...
netflixit.com converts to netflix.com/search?
/fantasy/ converts to category=Fantasy
/heroes/ converts to &name=Heroes

So what I need it to do is both redirect and transform some of the
stuff. There will only and always be 2 sections, such /category/
title/, so that may make it easier. If a user doesn't put the correct
amount of sections, I'll just take them to the home page
netflixit.com, or whatever.

On Dec 2, 5:54 am, Robert Walker <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> MOLTEN wrote in post #965662:
>
> > Could you make a really simple app in Rails at say the domain
> > netflixit.com that allows people to just type in like netflixit.com/
> > fantasy/heroes and be instantly directed to the netflix version? So, I
> > guess it has to convert and change the URL, but I don't know how. The
> > website would be pretty much blank. The only thing it would be used
> > for is automatically redirecting to the netflix site. The idea is just
> > to give people an easier way to find something in a database type site
> > if they already know what they are looking for.
>
> > This sounds like it would be very easy, but I'm still a beginner in
> > Rails. I don't even know the correct term for what this would be
> > called - might be easier to find information if I did :D
>
> > So, does anyone know any tutorials that show how to do this, or at
> > least know the technical term for this so I can do my own searching?
>
> There are already many sites that do exactly this bit.ly, j.mp,
> tinyurl.com, etc.
>
> Yes, these sites do this for the express purpose of shortening the URL,
> but what you're describing is really the same thing. Do a Google search
> for URL shortening scripts and see how they work. That should get you
> started.
>
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