Routing, use parts of entered url as id / perma

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Hello,

I just started ruby on rails a week ago and know cannot find any information which helps me for my desired routing. At the moment I cannot image that this should be too hard.

I'd like to use urls like the following to display a simple page: domain.com/customer/features domain.com/customer/screenshots domain.com/customer/order domain.com/partner/features domain.com/partner/screenshots domain.com/partner/order domain.com/contact domain.com/disclaimer domain.com/home

This is deadly simple possible using sinatra with the following routes: get '/' do   MyClass::MyMethod() end

get '/:pageTitle' do   MyClass::ShowPage(params[:pageTitle], nil) end

get '/:audienceTitle/:pageTitle' do   MyClass::ShowPage(params[:pageTitle], params[:audienceTitle]) end

In MyClass::ShowPage() I can do the necessary lookup for the page depending on provided parameters. Unfortunately I don't know how to pass part of the url as param to my routing. I tried this and similars in routes.rb:   map.foo 'foo/:pageTitle', :controller => 'pages', :action => 'show', :id => Page.find_by_pageTitle(:pageTitle)[0].id

But this does not work. And please, I do not want to start discussion about permalink pro/con :wink:

Thanks in advance for any help, - ZoolWay

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ZoolWay wrote:

Hello,

I just started ruby on rails a week ago and know cannot find any information which helps me for my desired routing. At the moment I cannot image that this should be too hard.

I'd like to use urls like the following to display a simple page: domain.com/customer/features domain.com/customer/screenshots domain.com/customer/order domain.com/partner/features domain.com/partner/screenshots domain.com/partner/order domain.com/contact domain.com/disclaimer domain.com/home

This is deadly simple possible using sinatra with the following routes: get '/' do   MyClass::MyMethod() end

get '/:pageTitle' do   MyClass::ShowPage(params[:pageTitle], nil) end

get '/:audienceTitle/:pageTitle' do   MyClass::ShowPage(params[:pageTitle], params[:audienceTitle]) end

In MyClass::ShowPage() I can do the necessary lookup for the page depending on provided parameters. Unfortunately I don't know how to pass part of the url as param to my routing. I tried this and similars in routes.rb:   map.foo 'foo/:pageTitle', :controller => 'pages', :action => 'show', :id => Page.find_by_pageTitle(:pageTitle)[0].id

But this does not work. And please, I do not want to start discussion about permalink pro/con :wink:

Thanks in advance for any help, - ZoolWay

Hey ZoolWay

I you shouldn't be calling find in your routes file at all.

try map.connect "foo/:pageTitle", :controller => "pages", :action => "show"

and then in your show action you can use:   Page.find_by_pageTitle(:pageTitle)

Also - I would try to stick to the convention of underscoring column names rather than camelCase.

Gavin

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I think you should be looking at your models here - both Customer and Partner look like candidates for a has_and_belongs_to_many association with Feature, Screenshot, and Order. Once you get this sorted the routes you are interested should come naturally out of your various controller methods.

Take a look at:

   Active Record Associations — Ruby on Rails Guides    Rails Routing from the Outside In — Ruby on Rails Guides

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Thank you both for you information.

I'll look into Rick's links soon. For the first try Gavin's suggestion work out quite well. Even with a second route with two params it works well!

Best regards, - ZoolWay