How about just:
match '/:type/:id' => 'products#show'
And then in ProductsController#show, use params[:id] and params[:type] ?
Ben
On 29 November 2010 09:44, Mark Ratjens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
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