The requirement is to have urls of the form /cars/23
not /products/cars-23 This will, of course, be my fall-back position if I can't get exactly what is wanted. Also, I'm already using friendly_id ... my id's aren't actually numeric, but it doesn't change the problem. I've read though the friendly_id doco ... it doesn't seem to help with adapting the url beyond id's and nested id's. I have read at least one post where Norman Clark has answered saying that friendly_id is not aimed at solving routing issues. On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Andy Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > You could consider mapping the following route to products controller > > /products/:type/:id > > or have a look into friendly_id, which is along the same concept of > to_params, maybe use id like car-23, truck-37, boat-126 > > On 28 November 2010 23:52, Mark Ratjens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Suppose I have an ActiveRecord called Product. I can have different kinds > of > > products, say "cars", "trucks" and "boats." Because of the nature of the > > app, there is no need to subclass product (i.e, the data and behaviour is > > the same) ... > > > > ... but for SEO reasons I want to be able to generate links in the app > that > > include the kind of product, not just "product", for example: > > > > /cars/23 > > /trucks/37 > > /boats/126 > > > > not: > > > > products/23 etc > > > > The thing I am tousling with is generating the appropriate link in the > app. > > Is there some way I can adapt: > > > > link_to @product.name, @product > > > > to automagically generate a link with the right product kind ... or do I > > need to do it long-hand, i.e: > > > > link_to @product.name, :controller => @product.kind, :action => :show, > :id > > => :product > > > > ? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
