# Nice urls? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 5, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655 "2008-06-05T20:42:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/1 "2008-06-05T20:42:57Z")
Can anyone please explain to me how to get ugly urls like : [hostname.com/browse/day?cal\_name=name&day=9&month=6&year=2008](http://hostname.com/browse/day?cal_name=name&day=9&month=6&year=2008) to be something nice like: [hostname.com/browse/name/day/month/year](http://hostname.com/browse/name/day/month/year) or something like that? I’ve read a bit about routes but I don’t see any examples anywhere really of how to do this. ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/2 "2008-06-05T20:57:54Z")
On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Amanda … wrote: > I’ve read a bit about routes but I don’t see any examples anywhere > really of how to do this. map.connect ‘browse/:cal\_name/:day/:month/:year’, :controller =\> ‘browse’, :action =\> ‘day’ Assuming that the default route was picking up your example URL. -Rob Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/3 "2008-06-05T21:00:03Z")
> map.connect ‘browse/:cal\_name/:day/:month/:year’, :controller =\> > ‘browse’, :action =\> ‘day’ > > Assuming that the default route was picking up your example URL. > > -Rob > > Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com) > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid where do I do that? ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/4 "2008-06-05T21:03:29Z")
and also, since the :day, :cal\_name etc are parameters would I have to do ‘browse/params[:cal\_name]/params[:day]/…’? ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/5 "2008-06-05T21:34:06Z")
On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Amanda … wrote: > where do I do that? In your project’s config/routes.rb file, of course. ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/6 "2008-06-05T21:38:14Z")
oh lol thanks so much! ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/7 "2008-06-05T21:42:58Z")
Amanda, You may want to read into how you can setup customer routes using the routes.rb files in rails… Furthermore you may want to read into RESTful development, and how rails deals with Resources etc… might help with your issue here. There’s a TON of information on this on the net, and there’s just too much to go through here… ---
**Author:** ![amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@amanda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amanda)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-urls/139655/8 "2008-06-06T13:09:04Z")
Or, I find The Rails Way by Obie F. exceptionally clear on this topic. Excellent book in many ways, but it seems to really shine on routings. Ron