Custom URLs in Rails

rubyonrails-talk
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like for example virb.com/yourURLHere, how is this accomplished... I've been searching for a bit but I haven't found a solution.

Thanks

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take a look at some of these solutions http://www.railslodge.com/tags/all/url

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Let me rephrase....

When I say custom URL I mean... that http://www.yoursite.com/controller is the regular format.... What if it was http://www.yoursite.com/your_screen_name, and then route that to the profile controller and index action for example.

Make sense?

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Read up on routing. There is a file called routes.rb in your config directory that does this mapping for you.

This is a good place to start.

http://www.chariotsolutions.com/slides/ete2007-black-rails-routing-roundup.pdf

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Thanks for the help... BTW it is my first time even using rails =)

heres' what I finally was able to do

map.connect '*path', :controller => 'profile', :action => 'index'

at the bottom of routes...

Seems to work. Cheers