newbie questions

I have not used the Wrox book, but certainly Why's guide is the accepted introduction to ruby, and the Agile Dev with Rails book is the best way to be learning up-to-date stuff with 1.2.

As for this problem, %5 is a url-encoded backslash. Seems like a string escaping problem... I would be curious to back-trace where it comes from. Is the backslash in the form tag on the original page? Is it in the url visible in the browser? Or does it just show up in the params array? I suspect it's in the original page, in which case it would help if you could post the code generating the form.

Hope that helped,

Adam

Jeff Beddow wrote:

When you say it is in the input.html, do you mean the view template on the server, or the page that is actually sent to the browser? We can help you best if you post the following: the exact code in this controller action, the exact code in the view for this action, and the exact html which gets generated by the server.