[Rails] Re: Escaping characters in links

That is did not seem to work. I got a routing error.

<%= link_to CGI::escape(type.name), types_path(CGI::escape(type.name))
%>

The name of the link is appropriately displayed with the "/" replaced
but the link is not.

On May 22, 12:14 am, tommy xiao <xia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, have a try:
> <%= link_to type.name, "#{types_path(type.name)}" %>
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> keep the second parameter is string,right?
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> 2011/5/21 tashfeen.ekram <tashfeen.ek...@gmail.com>
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> > I have the below link I am generating and type.name returns some
> > strings with a forward slash ("/").  This of course messes up routing.
> > I would like to escape it to %2F however I am unclear on how to do
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> > <%= link_to type.name, types_path(CGI::escape(type.name)) %>
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> > If I do the below. it gives a no route error.
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> > <%= link_to type.name, types_path(CGI::escapeHTML(type.name)) %>
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> > Thanks.
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