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Hadi Farhat
Courses Plus Student 7,102 Pointsmy form handles white spaces normally
I submitted a form with white spaces both in the title and content. There was no error messages and I did not use the URI.escape method. Maybe I use a new version of sinatra that handles this problem automatically ?
4 Answers
Jay McGavren
Treehouse TeacherAre you passing a path with spaces in it to redirect? That's when errors are likely to occur.
Lloyd Stevens
10,934 PointsMine also accepts spaces. When submitting the data it removes the spaces accordingly with %20 This works if there are also a number of words
I imagine this is an update in the sinatra that has fixed the issue with redirect and whitespace?
Zack Guo
12,135 PointsMe too! My form also handles white spaces normally without URI.escape.
Ahmed Mohamed Fouad
11,735 Pointsthe same here, my form handles white spaces normally
Thomas Lee
6,002 PointsThomas Lee
6,002 PointsI learned a lot from this course. Thanks, Jay! Thankfully, my browser also handles spaces as other users mention in this forum.
However, I noticed that when saving a new page with a title that includes a "?", a new .txt file will be created, as will the page, but it will not correctly request the resource. I know question marks are used in urls to designate the beginning of a query. Any way to escape question marks to preserve the title?
Jay McGavren
Treehouse TeacherJay McGavren
Treehouse TeacherYou might do a web search for the Ruby
URI::Escapemodule; that should help.Also note that question marks are often a reserved character in the file names for many operating systems. Storing part of our data as a file name is a nice, simple example, but this is one of its inherent weaknesses. You might want to do a web search for Ruby's
PstoreorYAML::Storelibraries as a way to store data without character set limitations.