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user4329049
user4329049

Reputation: 13

how to hide "id" in url using ruby on rails

controller.rb

@user = User.where(:id => params[:id]).take

html.erb

<a href="/home/layout02_03/<%[email protected]%>">
 something
</a>

click that a tag then url is "/home/layout02_03/3"

3 is user's id,

but I don't want to expose that "id"

how can I do that, I'm using ruby on rails

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1470

Answers (2)

Furkan E Apaydın
Furkan E Apaydın

Reputation: 324

For anyone who is having the same issue, I would also suggest you to use a gem like Visibilize which offers more options on creating exposable friendly ID's.

Just install the gem and call visibilize inside your model.

Upvotes: 0

Dmitry Sokurenko
Dmitry Sokurenko

Reputation: 6132

You need to have any other unique attribute on the User model, e.g. some random GUID value, once you have it, just use it instead of the ID:

<a href="/home/layout02_03/<%= @interest.obscure_uniq_identifier %>">

Or define it to be the default URL representation for the User:

class User

def to_param
  obscure_uniq_identifier
end

You can generate one using:

before_create :generate_guid
def generate_guid
  self.obscure_uniq_identifier = SecureRandom.hex
end

Upvotes: 2

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