routes and param oddity

[Ming]

I have a route that looks like this

/countries/:ctry(/cities/:city/)(/page/:pg)

if i generate a url that looks like this

/countries/spain/cities/barcelona?page=2


param[:ctry] holds "spain"
param[:city] holds "barcelona"

param[:pg] holds nil
param[page] holds "2"

I expected

param[:pg] holds "2"

but that is not the case.

I am misunderstanding something?

TIA

[Chris]

That's because you're passing page as a query string parameter instead of in the url itself.

Try /countries/spain/cities/barcelona/page/2

which would fit your defined route. Query string params don't have to be declared in the route, anyway.

2009/11/6 Ming <min...@gmail.com>