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zasman
zasman

Reputation: 486

Rails: Custom URL For Posts

In my rails app, I have a posts section to allow user submitted content. By default, the convention for URL's for new posts will be something like yoursite/posts/8. I am wondering if anyone knows if it is possible for there to be a method for users to create a custom URL route for this, such as making a new post and then having a string with "custom URL" so it becomes something like 'yoursite/posttopic'. Does anyone know how one might go about doing this? Thank you!

Post schema looks like this:

  create_table "posts", force: :cascade do |t|
    t.string   "title"
    t.text     "body"
    t.datetime "created_at",         null: false
    t.datetime "updated_at",         null: false
    t.integer  "user_id"
    t.string   "image_file_name"
    t.string   "image_content_type"
    t.integer  "image_file_size"
    t.datetime "image_updated_at"
  end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Nic Nilov
Nic Nilov

Reputation: 5156

Use friendly_id gem. Updated example from its Quick start guide:

# edit app/models/post.rb
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :title, use: :slugged
end

Post.create! title: "posttopic"

# Change Post.find to Post.friendly.find in your controller
Post.friendly.find(params[:id])
rails server

Now you can use this:

GET http://localhost:3000/posts/posttopic

Upvotes: 1

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