names and nested routes?!?

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Hi Guys,

I have the following route to show the articles for a selected service in my application.

http://localhost:3000/services/4/articles

I want to be able to have a route to the service name rather than the route such as the following.

http://localhost:3000/services/clothes/articles

I thought something like the following in the routes.rb file would be the way forward?

map.connect 'clothes/', :controller => 'articles', :action => "index", :service_id => '4'

Many thanks in advance

Dave

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Assuming that the attribute of the Service is called name, you should define this in your Service model:

def to_param   name end

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Franz Strebel wrote:

http://localhost:3000/services/clothes/articles

Assuming that the attribute of the Service is called name, you should define this in your Service model:

def to_param   name end

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I used the following code in the end, as I have a field title in the table.

  def to_param       id.to_s+'-'+title.downcase.gsub(' ', '-')   end

However it puts the address with the ID at the beginning;

http://localhost:3000/services/1-horse-&-groom/articles

Is there a way I can remove this from the address to tidy it up a bit?