I have a route like so:
map.resources :articles
And I need to be able to have a URL like:
/article/:id/:slug
Is there any way to do this without messing with view code? I've looked around at route documentation and code but can't wrap my head around it. I know there's the to_param way to get "id-slug" but I am porting my app from PHP to Rails and really need to preserve my URLs.
*Note* Updated to Rails 2.1 as I needed to use a few things from there, perhaps there are methods in 2.1 that could help with this?
Is there no way?
I hope this url can help you :
http://earthcode.com/blog/2007/01/nested_crud_resources_in_rails_1.html
Reinhart http://teapoci.blogspot.com
And also this url :
http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2007/03/05/restful-authentication-for-ruby-on-rails-apps
Reinhart
Rails Terrorist wrote:
And also this url :
Reinhart
I don't think either of those URL's really answer my question?
The whole routing system leans on the to_param method of ActiveRecord. With that in mind, I'd suggest trying to override Article#to_param:
class Artice < ActiveRecord::Base ... def to_param "#{id}/#{slug}" end end
That way, the article will include both it's id and slug when it's used to create a url. It's a bit of a hack, but it might work.
Andy, thanks for the help. I had tried that before but it actually sanitizes the html for the url, so its something like
article/100%XXtitle-of-article
Nathan W. wrote:
Andy, thanks for the help. I had tried that before but it actually sanitizes the html for the url, so its something like
article/100%XXtitle-of-article
You should read carefully my link because what Andi explained to you was described in my link :
http://earthcode.com/blog/2007/01/to_param_still_works_with_rest.html
Reinhart
Right, I understand that technique and I wrote in my original post that I specifically *dont* want to do that.. Also your links above were wrongly done..
Is there a way to update, say, article_path, to output this result with the '/'?