I'm using the atom builder to build a feed. It's mostly working but the value in the link element of each entry is not being generated as it needs to be.
My url scheme looks like http://example.com/blog/nickname/id
I have a controller called blog_entries and a routes.rb file which a seet of maps for blog_entries, it looks something like this (amongst all the other routes):
map.blog_entries 'blog/:nickname', :controller => "blog_entries", :action => "index", :conditions => {:method => :get} map.formatted_blog_entries 'blog/:nickname.:format', :controller => "blog_entries", :action => "index", :conditions => {:method => :get}
In my views, to generate the correct URLs for links I do something like:
<%= link_to 'New Entry', new_blog_entry_path(:nickname => @blog.nickname) %>
and this creates the correct path.
The builder code looks like:
feed.entry(post) do |entry| entry.title post.title etc... end
The problem is the generated link in the atom output, it looks like
<link type='....' href="http://example.com/blog/1" />
when what I need is
<link type='....' href="http://example.com/blog/nickname/1" />
I've tried
entry.link :href => "some other url"
but that adds a second link entry into the output which is in the wrong place in the XML so is ignored by readers.
So, can I hook into the url generation mechanism to get the nickname value into the URL, or can I tell the builder to use "nickname" when generating the url?
If not I guess the other thing is to generate the atom feed myself, seems a shame not to use the builder though.