Brian Hogan wrote:
> LOL
> There's no reason to use to_param. It's just a convention to pass the
> id through the URL. It's type is not enforced.
>
> # expects /users/15
> def edit
> @user = User.find(params[:id])
> end
>
> # expects /users/bphogan
> def show
> @user = User.find_by_username(params[:id])
> end
>
> The only thing to watch out for is that find throws a RecordNotFound
> exception when there is no record found, which will display a 404 in
> production, and find_by_username returns nil, so you'll wanna handle
> that.
>
> But there's no need to do anything funny with to_params or routing or
> anything like that.
Thx a lot but I really do want to get rid of the /user before "username"
so my url looks like this: http://mydomain.com/username... like i said
before...
http://twitter.com/gigaom for instance... How do i get rid of "user/" in
the url ????
thx again
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