CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
user2950593
user2950593

Reputation: 9627

Custom url building rails

I am creating simple e-commerce website. I don't want to use spree gem cause it has some problems with localization. So I decided to build my own. I will have some categories which i will take from database. Let's say I take category cars And there I click on bmw x5 limited edition So I want to make browser address string look like http://mywebsite.com/cars/bmw-x5-limited-edition

I need this for seo. I don't want to use get params like mywebsite.com/cars/5?carname=bmw-x5 Also there will be many categories and products which will be added to database through admin dashboard. So how do I do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 37

Answers (3)

Edvaldo Silva de Almeida Jr
Edvaldo Silva de Almeida Jr

Reputation: 3723

This gem may also help you: https://rubygems.org/gems/sanetitle. It does exactly what you want, removing special chars and putting everything in lowercase. You may also limit the number of chars in the returned value.

Upvotes: 0

Jefferson
Jefferson

Reputation: 1559

You change your url by creating a to_url method in your cars model.

def to_param
    "#{name}"    #=> bmw-x5-limited-edition
end

FYI: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/creating-vanity-urls-in-rails

Upvotes: 1

MayankJ
MayankJ

Reputation: 446

define method in your car model

def to_param
  carname.to_s.gsub(/\s/, '-')
end

your URL would be http://mywebsite.com/cars/bmw-x5-limited-edition

but you need to find the record in the show action by the carname instead of id because now you are sending carname in place of id.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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