Rails, AJAX, and extra URL parameters

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I recently updated an app from 1.1.6 to 1.2.3

Some places in the code, there are items like this:

                <%= in_place_editor "overrule_#{@candidate.id

}_#{@question.id}", {:url =>{ :controller =>‘grade’, :action=>‘set_grade_overrule’,

                     :candidate_id => @[candidate.id](http://candidate.id),
                     :question_id=> @[question.id](http://question.id)},
                  }
                %>

instead of rendering ?candidate_id=1&question_id=1552 we get ?candidate_id=1&question_id=1552

Now, I can solve this problem by defining routes, but is this correct that the URL is getting escaped? That seems wrong to me.

Is there a better way to pass additional parameters to the server instead of in the url when doing an ajax call?

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Yeah… it “should” decode it… but according to firebug, and my Rails application, it does not.

Firebug’s output:

amp;question_id 1729 candidate_id 1 Notice that it’s amp;question_id instead of question_id. So it’s the unescaping that’s broken?

I don’t like the ‘with’ option cos I always screw it up, but it would probably be better. Right now this is fixable with named routes… but man, why can’t it be easy?