How to get options from a URL string?

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Hello,

I have some non-REST named routes, e.g. home_url, to hook up a couple of static pages on my otherwise RESTful site.

I would like to use link_to_unless_current or current_page? but the problem is those methods take an options hash rather than a url string as generated by, say, home_url.

What's the best way to reverse-engineer a URL into an options hash? I know you can use hash_for_xxx for a RESTful route but that doesn't work with non-RESTful routes.

Thanks and regards, Andy Stewart

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I would like to use link_to_unless_current or current_page? but the problem is those methods take an options hash rather than a url string as generated by, say, home_url.

Just to tidy up loose ends, it turns out that the documentation is wrong and link_to_unless_current and current_page? can both take a url string.

Regards, Andy Stewart