How to create routes for user

Rails
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I have a user. They have could have many products

The typical link in rails would be
www.somesite.com/controller/action/id

what I want is it to look like

www.somesite.com/user_name/product_name

How can I do this using routes.rb

Thank

Mitch

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you can use

match “/:user_name/:product_name” => “products#show”

but be sure to place this at the bottom of your routes file so it will
match
if not any other routes match.
one big problem i’m seeing with this approach is if a user’s name is the
same as one of your controllers.
so you have to consider that.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Mitchell G.
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On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Mitchell G. wrote:

I have a user. They have could have many products

The typical link in rails would be
www.somesite.com/controller/action/id

what I want is it to look like

www.somesite.com/user_name/product_name

How can I do this using routes.rb

You might want to look at friendly_id, that’s right up its alley.

Walter