Named Routing in Rails (getting rid of the ids)

monkeymagic () — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:04:43 GMT

Lifted from Semergence
(http://www.semergence.com/archives/2005/12/01/10/02/32/)

In config/routes.rb:





map.project ‘project/:projtitle’ :controller => ‘project’, :action => ’show’

In app/controllers/project_controller.rb:



   def show

     @project = Project.find(:first,

                             :conditions => [’title = ?’,params[:projtitle]])

     …

   end

Or something like that. Assuming your project titles are unique. Then
you can also use project_url (since you have map.project in routes.rb)
for urls in your views, e.g.



   <% for project in @projects %>

   <%= link_to project.title,

               project_url(:projtitle => project.title) %>

    …

   <% end %>

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