I had a very basic question as to, how does rails encodes URl's ?

Hi,

I had a very basic question as to, how does rails encodes URl's ?

Eg.

1> http://my.shop.com/store/show_product/123

and in

2> http://my.blog.com/blog/2005/07/04

Regards,

Piyush Gupta

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