Ruby on Rails

On 12/02/2010 04:00 PM, MOLTEN wrote:
> Okay, I've been doing some looking around and it looks like using the
> redirect helper is what I need. Does this look it would work?
>
> resources :movies
> match "/:category/:movie" => redirect("netflix.com/search?category=%
> {category}&name=%{movie}")
>

Why do you want to realize this with rails? As far as i can see, you can
realize what you want to do with apache's mod_rewrite.

Cheers,

Jan

> I don't exactly know what document to put this kind of code in though,
> or in what context :(. The only point of the site would be to preform
> that code though, like the site is extremely plain and basic. I don't
> need statistics or anything (yet). A counter for the amount of
> redirects would be nice though. How would I make a very basic app that
> is just able to complete this code? There's a tiny part covering this
> on railscasts.com, but he doesn't show making the actual app, just
> using this little piece within it.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply :)
>
> On Dec 2, 6:07 am, MOLTEN<vincent.ciarav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>> --
>>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

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