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fev3r
fev3r

Reputation: 105

Update params or redirect to correct URL rails

Relatively new to rails, so having trouble coming to a solution for this issue.

Currently have a route: /test/testing/:id Where once a user hits the route, it will find an item in the database with that specific id and set the URL to localhost:3000/test/testing/1-name-of-this-item

However, if you just manually type in that URL eg: localhost:3000/test/testing/1, I would like it to either redirect to /test/testing/1-name-of-this-item OR if there is some way to change the params before the page load. But not entirely sure on how to do this.

Thank you for the help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 224

Answers (3)

fev3r
fev3r

Reputation: 105

I figured it out; there is a gem called refraction that is a middleware that allows you to alter the URL before it is processed by the app, which works well.

https://github.com/joshsusser/refraction

Upvotes: 0

spickermann
spickermann

Reputation: 106802

From your comment above I suppose that you have a Testing model that has at least a column named id and a column path. Because you didn't mention how the path is generated I will just assume that the column is prepopulated and returns slugs like 1-name-of-this-item and that the number prefixing the path is always in sync with the record's id.

Further, I guess that you have your routes properly set up and that /test is a namespace and /testing is defined as an ordinary resources :testing. That makes me assume that a path_helper like test_testing_path was generated by Rails.

If that is the case then it might be enough to just change your show controller method to this:

def show
  @testing = Testing.find(params[:id])
  
  if @testing.path != params[:id]
    redirect_to test_testing_path(@testing.path)
  else
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # show.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @testing }
    end
  end
end

Upvotes: 1

Farhad Ajaz
Farhad Ajaz

Reputation: 274

You can try two ways to handle this

1: use the following Gem which will construct URL's based on the attribute you want https://github.com/norman/friendly_id

2: override to_param method in your model and pass the attribute you would like to display in URL path

https://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/to_param

Upvotes: 1

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