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Gaelle
Gaelle

Reputation: 599

rails routes access by resource name using friendly_id gem

I have a list of cities stored in City table. Let's say I want to generate dynamic routes to be accessible through resource.name, city.name in this example.

I want to be able to visit /amsterdam or /berlin. How?

For info I'm using friendly_id gem so already have slug column if that makes more sense.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2264

Answers (3)

Matenia Rossides
Matenia Rossides

Reputation: 1414

Don't know if this helps .. but I have put together a gist on what I use in my projects.

https://gist.github.com/1908782

It mostly works for what I do as my routes file is generally quite concise.

The beauty of it is, that if you attempt to visit a path that doesn't exist, it won't hit any routes!

Just a side note, this is broken in the 4.0 release. At the time of writing this, you will need to put the following in your gemfile.

gem 'friendly_id', :git => 'git://github.com/norman/friendly_id.git'

or 

gem 'friendly_id', :git => 'https://github.com/norman/friendly_id.git'

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

tee
tee

Reputation: 4419

At the end of your routes file, add this:

match '*id' => 'cities#show

Then in your CitiesController:

def show
  @city = City.find(params[:id])
  # ...
end

Upvotes: 0

iwasrobbed
iwasrobbed

Reputation: 46703

Assuming you have friendly_id set up correctly:

match '/cities/:name' => 'cities#show'

or

resources :cities

From the Quick Start for the friendly_id gem:

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :name, use: :slugged
end

Also:

# If you're adding FriendlyId to an existing app and need
# to generate slugs for an existing model, do this from the
# console, runner, or add a Rake task:

City.find_each(&:save)

Here is a RailsCast on it: http://railscasts.com/episodes/314-pretty-urls-with-friendlyid?view=asciicast

Upvotes: 4

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