That is true... I guess what I'm trying to get at is avoid using the built in ids as the resource identifier... and instead just using a randomly generated number as the identifier:
www.myrailsapp.com/post/what-were-they-thinking-184952 Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Ze Ca <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >> I suppose they could, but I'd like to make the URL path as short as >> possible. > > Why? What possible value does an obfuscated and shortened URL > offer anyone? > > If anything, most users would get more value out of something like > > www.myrailsapp.com/post/631-what-were-they-thinking > > which at least gives the user (as well as search engines!) *some* > meta-information about the content of the resource... > >> Plus, it's a excuse to learn how it works :). > > ..and you could google `rails friendly urls` for implementation examples > to study :-) > > FWIW, > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com > twitter: @hassan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
