I am trying to setup a pretty url that does not show the resource on the route.
For example, instead of:
localhost/users/newton
show
localhost/newton
Is that possible with the pretty_id gem?
Thanks!
i think you mean the friendly_id gem? Either way, you can, but in the routes file, you would just need to specify that you want to use the users controller.
get ':slug' => 'users#show', :as => 'user_show'
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For example I have simple routes like:
get 'something/:param' => 'controller#action'
Request path in this case is /something/123 for example
Being in controller how to generate URL w/o parameter(s) like /something using Rails features?
Other examples:
get 'something/:param/action' => 'controller#action': '/something/action'
get 'something/:param/:param2' => 'controller#action': '/something'
You mean like this? You just get rid of the :param.
get 'something/' => 'controller#action'
get 'something/action' => 'controller#action'
If you are looking to protect or obscure the ids in the routes, or simply have nicer looking urls, then you might want to try the friendly_id gem.
In the answer to this question about routes in Devise: Devise & Custom Rails User URLs
There is a line of code:
match '/:user' => "users#show", :as => :user_profile
That apparently works for the question asker, but not for me. I end up with
NoMethodError in UsersController#show
undefined method `books' for nil:NilClass
when I go to localhost:3000/username instead of localhost:3000/user/username. I assume because the match line above isn't working correctly and that url does not refer to any user, according to my routes file.
The second url routes me to the user's show page, but I don't want the extra /user in the url.
So I'm trying to figure out exactly what '/:user', :as, and :user_profile mean because I think I'm supposed to substitute a few things here specific to my app. I think :as is some kind of aliased method. I can't find anything in the Devise documentation about a route called user_profile. And I don't know what '/:user' is referring to. An instance of the User object? A user attribute/unique column in my database that I use to refer to specific users? (I use permalink for my user-defined urls).
The route is working for you. Thats why ur getting error from users_controller#show.
In your show action you must be doing something like User.where(:id => params[:id]). But in this case, the attribute in your params is called :user . So to make make both routes work, without any change in the show action, change the route to
match '/:id' => "users#show", :as => :user_profile
Devise documentation won't refer to a 'user_profile' because it is a custom route being used to help address the issue that the questioner (in the linked question) was asking.
match '/:user' => "users#show" means "match any route with a single parameter after / that doesn't match a previously defined route, pair this route to the UsersController 'show' action (passing along the singe parameter as 'user')"
Modifying a route using :as => :anything will provide several helper methods to refer to this route that may be used in controllers, views, and mailers (in this case anything_path and anything_url).
As far as why this won't work for you, this is likely do to a problem with this entry in regard to the rest of your routes or because of your controller action itself. Posting these can help someone track down the exact reason...
I have a controller in a Rails 3 app named "my_store." I would like to be able to use this controller as is, except replacing "my_store" in all the URL's with another name. I do not want to rename the controller file, and all the references to it. Is there a clean way to do this with just a routing statement?
If you use RESTful routes:
resources :another_name, :controller => "my_store"
Otherwise:
match "another_name" => "my_store"
If your routes are RESTful, this is pretty easy.
resources :photos, :controller => "images"
You can see how to do this and other helpful Rails routing information in the Rails routing guide.
Update, the other guys are correct, to replace all references you would change the resources name and corresponding controller in routes.rb! My answer is only good to set a specific route.
Yup, you would do this in your routes.rb using the :as option to specify
example:
match 'exit' => 'sessions#destroy', :as => :logout
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I'm attempting to create "pretty URLs" for linking to posts in a blog. I want to maintain access to the blog entries via entries/23 and 2011/07/some-post-slug-here as I only generate a slug once an entry has been published (just in case the title of the posts changes, and, though not a strict requirement, I would prefer to be able to edit/delete posts via the entries/23 style URL. Currently, the appropriate part of what I have in my config/routes.rb:
root :to => 'entries#index'
resources :entries
match ':year/:month/:slug' => 'entries#show', :constraints => {
:year => /[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/,
:month => /[0-9][0-9]/,
:slug => /[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+/
}, :as => :vanity_entry
and I use this (in my application helper) function for creating the links:
def appropriate_entry_path entry
if entry.published
vanity_entry_path entry.published_on.year.to_s, entry.published_on.month.to_s, entry.slug
else
entries_path entry
end
end
def appropriate_entry_url entry
if entry.published
vanity_entry_url entry.published_on.year.to_s, entry.published_on.month.to_s, entry.slug
else
entries_url entry
end
end
Basically, I check if the article is published (and therefore has a slug) and then use that URL/path helper, or otherwise use the default one.
However, when trying to use this, I get the following from Rails:
No route matches {:slug=>"try-this-one-on-for", :month=>"7", :controller=>"entries", :year=>"2011", :action=>"show"}
I have tried a few different solutions, including overriding to_param in my Entry model, however then I would have to create match routes for the edit/delete actions, and I would like to keep my routes.rb file as clean as possible. Ideally, I would also love to lose the appropriate_entry_path/appropriate_entry_url helper methods, but I'm not sure that this is possible?
Is there any thing I am missing regarding routing that might make this easier and/or is there any specific way of doing this that is the cleanest?
Thanks in advance.
You might want to take a look at friendly_id. It's a gem for creating seo friendly slugs :)
I found the issue with what I had been doing, the regex for :month in the route wanted two numbers, whereas I was only passing in one number. Anyways, I decided that the URLs look nicer (in my opinion) without the month padded to 2 digits, so I updated my route accordingly.
I want the following urls for my UserController:
localhost/user/join
localhost/user/login
localhost/user/user_name (this can be any name in here, it should fire the 'profile' action)
Then within the /user/user_name_here/ folder I want:
/user/user_name/blah1/
/user/user_name/blah2/
/user/user_name/blah3/
It seems doing resources :user only creates things for index/show/get, so I'm confused as to how to do this other than creating so many match '/user/join' etc. lines in routes.
match "user/:user_name" => "users#show"
then /user/username will redirect to the User controller, call the show method, and pass the :user_name param
you could do the same to other actions that doesn't neet parameters,
match '/user/login' => "sessions#new"
match '/user/join' => "user#new"
Yup - 'resources :user' is just scaffolding for the usual CRUD methods. If you want paths additional to those, you're going to have to create routes (it's the only way your app knows how to route a given URL to a given controller and method).
The friendly_id gem does something similar to what you're suggesting (though I believe it's monkey-patching the .find method on ActiveRecords classes rather than handling routing specifically).