# Clean URL's

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clean-urls/111216>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 3, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clean-urls/111216 "2007-08-03T21:42:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clean-urls/111216/1 "2007-08-03T21:42:10Z")

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I am working a project where I would like to make the url’s clean,  
meaning, not showing the user id. I have been follow Patrick Lenz’s book  
on how to do this without any success. No matter what I put, the route  
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’ allows gets executed. If I take it  
out and place my own at the very top, the whole things crashes. Is there  
another way or a better way to do this? Thanks,

~S

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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clean-urls/111216/2 "2007-08-03T21:50:58Z")

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Take a look at permalink\_fu:  
[http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/permalink\_fu/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/permalink_fu/)

A tutorial, if you need it, can be found here:  
[http://www.seoonrails.com/even-better-looking-urls-with-permalink\_fu](http://www.seoonrails.com/even-better-looking-urls-with-permalink_fu)

Hope this helps.