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Examples of advanced Rails 3.0 routes
Rails.application.routes.draw do
get '/(:locale)/products/(:category)/(page/:page).:extension',
:to => 'products#index',
:as => :products,
:constraints => {
:locale => /[a-z]{2}/,
:category => /.+?/,
:page => /\d+/
},
:defaults => {
:page => 1,
:extension => 'html',
:locale => 'en'
}
# products_path(:page => 1)
# => /products.html
# products_path(:page => 2)
# => /products/page/2.html
# products_path(:page => 2, :locale => 'de')
# => /de/products/page/2.html
# products_path('computers', :page => 2, :locale => 'de')
# => /de/products/computers/page/2.html
# products_path('computers/apple', :page => 2, :locale => 'de')
# => /de/products/computers/apple/page/2.html
# products_path('computers/apple')
# => /products/computers/apple.html
end
@longlostnick
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is it possible to make it so if a user comes from lets say "/zx/products.html" the path will also default to "/zx/..." without having to specify "product_path(:locale => 'xz')"?

Kind of like "dynamic" defaults, rather than just using a fixed value for the default.

@pixeltrix
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@ifightcrime you can set a default url option for the :locale key in a before filter or override the default_url_options method - see this Stack Overflow answer for an example.

@longlostnick
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Worked like a charm! thank you

@jgrannas
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So when you write:
products_path('computers', :page => 2, :locale => 'de')
How does the method know that computers is the category when its not being specified like the other params?

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