# Non numeric IDs in member resources

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-numeric-ids-in-member-resources/133597>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 1, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-numeric-ids-in-member-resources/133597 "2008-04-01T23:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![vega](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vega](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vega)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/non-numeric-ids-in-member-resources/133597/1 "2008-04-01T23:53:47Z")

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I have a nested resource:

map.resources :posts do |posts|  
posts.resources :comments  
end

which generates urls like:

posts/1/comments/2

Is there any way to use a “name” or other parameter instead of  
params[:id] for posts?. In other words I’d like to have a url like

posts/some-name-here/comments/2

Is something like resource\_hacks my only hope?

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-vega