how to pass an array through url_for.

rubyonrails-talk
#1

hi , every one.

i just want to generate url from url_for method

like this:

url_for(:controller=>"users",:action=>"index",:names=>["aotianlong","ayowaya"])

i except it's generate

users?names[]=aotianlong&names[]=ayowaya

but it's generated :

users?names=aotianlong%2Fayowaya

any idiea ?

thank you .

#2

IS this the RAILS’s bug?

#3

The way rails does it is the correct way. It will be reconstructed as
an array in the params hash.

#4

Looks like it. However, did you try in edge rails ? url_for()
generates expected link in edge for me. That'd be
"users?names[]=aotianlong&names[]=ayowaya" in your case,