hacketyhack/hackety-hack.com — Issue #102: User names with periods break routes
Author: abhirao
Created: 2011-10-23 23:27:03+00:00
State: open
Labels: Bug

Noticed an issue in development when Faker created a user with a period in username. example "madisen.stehr". Any page with link to that user name would break.

I tried to create such a user. Signing up will take you to your user page which breaks with this error (captured on my dev machine):

Routing Error

No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users", :id=>#}

Do we want to disallow this special char? Or resolve so that we can handle it?
Either way we need to check other special chars as well.