Custom Routes

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Hi, I am busy with a tourism website and I am almost done, but the URL's is starting to bug me... I am still a Rails noob, but I am eager to learn as much as possible. I already make use of resource routes, but I want to display the paths like this: /countries/ zimbabwe, and: admin/countries/southafrica instead of something like: /countries/1... Is this possible?

And would you encourage someone to use routes in that custom way?

One last thing: Is named routes also part of the RESTful routes?

Thanks! I really appreciate your dedication to help others :slight_smile:

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map 'countres/:name', :controller => a, :action => b

class a < ActiveController   def b     params[:name]   end end

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Hi,     As you want country name instead of id than pass name field. and in show method you have to search according to country name instead of id.

    As you required admin as prefix. so create namespace and define routes as     map.namespace :admin do |admin|         admin.resources :countries     end