I think the issue would more be the routing with the rest of the app -
'/:type/:id' would match a good number of paths you wouldn't actually want it
to.
I think Andy's got it spot on before - you do indeed use that route, but it
becomes your catch-all, at the end of your routes file.
There's still issues with being able to generate the paths neatly, but a helper
method or two should take care of that. The following may even work:
def link_to(*args, &block)
if args[1] && args[1].is_a?(Product)
# build your product path here
else
super
end
end
Could definitely be cleaner, but that's what I'd start with.
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Pat
On 29/11/2010, at 1:51 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote:
> 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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