I'm newbie in RoR and I'd like a bit of help here.
I have the following URI:
http://localhost:3000/abouts/2
And the next in Route:
resources :abouts, only: [:show]
I'd like to show the information of "about/2" in another page, for example:
http://localhost:3000/new_about
Regards!
You can simply map the desired URL to your existing action:
get 'new_about', to: 'abouts#show', id: 2
You can add your own routes in rails. You'd do something like :
get "/new_about" => "controller#action"
I would suggest sticking to the Rails way of doing things though unless it's only a few number of pages and you specifically need them to be named differently.
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I am trying to create short url links for books in Ruby on Rails. I want to get something like this: www.domain.com/book123, where book is the controller name (or custom controller name) and 123 is an id of the book.
Right now my routes look as follow:
resources :books, except: [:edit], path: "book" do
put :new, on: :new
member do
get ':id' => 'books#show'
get 'general' => 'books#general'
get 'additional' => 'books#additional'
get 'photos' => 'books#photos'
get 'map' => 'books#map'
end
resources :photos, only: [:create, :destroy]
end
This is what I get: http://localhost:3000/book/40 or www.domain.com/book/40.
I was trying to find similar questions and I found that the only way to achieve this is to use regex. I am new in Ruby on Rails and I want to find the right and efficient way of doing it.
Also, I might be wrong but I've noticed that some of the urls can affect on the website performance, so I don't want to have such problems.
Any help, information or examples will be highly appreciated. Thank you for your help and time.
You could try this route:
get 'book*id' => 'bookscontroller#show'
Check this article: https://www.railsmine.net/2014/10/route-globbing-in-ruby-on-rails.html
As #qdx47 has mentioned you'd better follow convention, but if you must not, I think you can override to_param on book model, like:
def to_param
"book#{id}"
end
and then define routes like
get ':id', to: 'books#show', constraints => { :book_id => /book[0-9]+/ }
I think you can give a try to below gem.
Friendly Id Gem
Then you will be able to generate slug that can be any unique string. By default it will be uuid but you can override it. Follow gem documentation. It will allow you generate routes like http://localhost:3000/books/book123.
In general, I think you would be going against convention and best practices by formatting your route in this way.
With that caveat, you should be able to define a route like so:
get(':book_id', 'books#show', constraints => { :book_id => /book[0-9]+/ })
You would then need to extract the id from the 'book' literal in the controller.
I'm building a "Brand personality" tool that gives you a report based on the text you share on social media.
I have a model PersonalityReport and in routes I have resources :personality_reports.
A new feature is to offer a "diff" between two reports and I'm trying to work out the most "guessable" way to model this in routes.
Ideally I'd like GET /personality_reports/:personality_report_id/diff/:id or something along those lines, and while I could simply put that into routes as a GET route, is there a more Railsy way of specifying a route using the resources / collections style so that my routes.rb file is more easy to understand?
The 'neatest' way can think of is:
resources :personality_reports, param: 'personality_report' do
member do
get 'diff/:id', to: 'personality_reports#action', as: 'diff_route'
end
end
Where obviously to: is your controller#action, and as: is the name of your route. After running rake routes you will see this generates:
diff_route_personality_report GET /personality_reports/:personality_report_id/diff/:id(.:format) personality_reports#action
I think whatever you mentioned is good enough,
resources : personality_reports do
resources :diffs, only: [:show]
end
So, routes like below,
personality_report_diff GET /personality_reports/:personality_report_id/diffs/:id(.:format) diffs#show
NOTE: You can also make diff route in singular resource :diff if you want to make it as singular resource.
My site used to have a mobile view here:
https://www.example.com/m/home
We have deprecated the mobile views and now I need a simple way to trim the /m/ off the URL so that the request proceeds to the correct page.
Example:
https://www.example.com/m/about => https://www.example.com/about
https://www.example.com/m/user/:id => https://www.example.com/user/:id
I'm hoping to solve this in the Rails routing without having to introduce a new controller action or meddle with nginx. I have 100+ routes. Thanks in advance.
Rails version: 4.2
There is a redirection module (also documented in the guide).
Something like :
get '/m/about', to: redirect('/about')
get '/m/user/:id', to: redirect('/user/%{id}')
Which you can combine with route globbing for a generic solution :
get '/m/*path', to: redirect('/%{path}')
How about just refactor your routes a bit:
Eg: Previous routes.rb
resources :users
# ...
Now, it becomes:
['m', ''].each do |sc|
scope sc do
resources :users
# ...
end
end
I hope the title is not to misleading, as I don't know a better title for the problem I'm working on:
I have a doctor which belongs to location and specialty. I'd like to route to show action of the doc controller like this:
/dentist/berlin/7
I defined my routes like this:
get ':specialty/:location/:id', to: 'docs#show'
And in my views create the following url to link to the show action of the doc controller:
<%= link_to doc.name, "#{doc.specialty.name}/#{doc.location.name}/#{doc.id}" %>
Is this a good solution to the problem? If not, is there a cleaner way to construct urls like this possibly using resources? What the heck is the name for a this problem?
Thank your very much for your help in advance.
For references, you should have a look at this page (especially the end of section 2.6)
If it is only for a single route, it's okay as you did. But then if you want to have more than one route (like /dentist/berlin/7, /dentist/berlin/7/make_appointment, etc.) you might want to structure a bit more your routes so as to take advantage of rails resources.
For example, instead of
get ':specialty/:location/:id', to: 'doctors#show'
get ':specialty/:location/:id/appointment', to: 'doctors#new_appointment'
post ':specialty/:location/:id/appointment', to: 'doctors#post_appointment'
You could have something like this (the code is almost equivalent, see explanation below)
resources :doctors, path: '/:specialty/:location', only: [:show] do
member do
get 'new_appointment'
post 'create_appointment'
end
end
Explanation
resources will generate the RESTful routes (index, show, edit, new, create, destroy) for the specified controller (doctors_controller I assume)
The 'only' means you don't want to add all the RESTful routes, just the ones specified
Then you want to add member actions, ie. actions that can be executed on a particular item of the collection. You can chose different syntaxes
resources :doctors do
member do
# Everything here will have the prefix /:id so the action applies to a particular item
end
end
# OR
resources :doctors do
get 'new_appointement', on: :member
end
By default, the controller action is the same as the path name you give, but you can also override it
member do
get 'appointment', action: 'new_appointment'
post 'appointment', action: 'post_appointment'
end
Rails has some wonderful helpers when it comes to routing !
The correct approach is to give your route a name, like this:
get ':specialty/:location/:id', to: 'docs#show', as: 'docs_show'
Then you can use it like this:
<%= link_to doc.name, docs_show_path(doc.specialty.name, doc.location.name, doc.id) %>
Note 1:
Rails appends _path at the end of the route names you define.
Note 2:
You can see all the available named routes by executing rake routes.
I have a basic understanding of rails routing, but nothing too advanced. So far I've gotten by using the RESTful resource based routes and a few custom named routes.
I am nearly done my app now though and I wanted to make some pretty urls.
In my app, each user has many pages. What's the best way to make the URL's look like www.sitename.com/username/page_name?
This will route to the pages controller's show action. Params hash includes :username and :page_name.
match "/:username/:page_name" => "pages#show"
Remember to put it last or it will match pretty much everything.
I'm not quite sure what you're using this for, but something like this might work in your routes file:
resources :users do
get 'page_name'
end
Which will produce: users/:id/page_name
You might want to check out the Railsguide on routing.
What you are looking for is a member route (section 2.9.1).
resources :users do
member do
get :cool_page
end
end
Will result in /users/:id/cool_page