David for the route to show up like twitter, you can use friendly_id
<https://github.com/norman/friendly_id> gem. or write your own route like
this
get "/:profile_id" => "profiles#show", :as => "user_profile", :constraints
=> { :profile_id => /[^\/]+/ }
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 December 2014 at 18:03, David Williams <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> > Colin Law wrote in post #1164989:
> >> On 19 December 2014 at 17:17, David Williams <li...@ruby-forum.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>> during signup for normal users. They have to put both their :username
> >>> and :email in. How could I show just /:username when a person routes to
> >>> their own show page?
> >>
> >> I think I must be misunderstanding the question, you can show as much
> >> or as little as you like, just put what you want in the view, and
> >> leave out what you do not want.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >
> > No, I'm beyond the view issue. I was just trying to fix the route as it
> > displays the users [:id] instead of the [:username]. For instance
> > twitter.com/username on show page for user. Thanks for your help so far.
>
> Have a look at the rails guide on routing, you can use match to make
> up any route you like.
>
> Colin
>
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