Routes & friendly URL's

Rails
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I have a Rails3 app with three resources:

  • League (has_many :teams)
  • Team (belongs_to :league, has_many :players)
  • Player (belongs_to :team)

With standard nested routes, I get URLs like:

/leagues (lists all leagues)
/leagues/2 (shows league #2)
/leagues/2/teams (lists all teams in league #2)
/teams/1 (shows team #1)
/teams/1/players (lists all players in team #1)
/players/1 (shows player #1)

I would like ‘user friendly’ urls like:

/west_conference/ (shows league ‘west_conference’)
/west_conference/teams (lists all the teams in the west conference)
/west_conference/eagles (shows the team ‘eagles’)
/west_conference/eagles/players (lists all players on the eagles)
/west_conference/eagles/smith (shows the player ‘smith’)

How do I configure my Rails3 app to add user_friendly urls like this?

tx, Andy

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, andyl [email protected] wrote:

/teams/1 (shows team #1)

How do I configure my Rails3 app to add user_friendly urls like this?

Aside from a bit of manual routing, have you seen friendly_id?

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andyl wrote in post #965181:

I have a Rails3 app with three resources:

  • League (has_many :teams)
  • Team (belongs_to :league, has_many :players)
  • Player (belongs_to :team)

With standard nested routes, I get URLs like:

/leagues (lists all leagues)
/leagues/2 (shows league #2)
/leagues/2/teams (lists all teams in league #2)
/teams/1 (shows team #1)
/teams/1/players (lists all players in team #1)
/players/1 (shows player #1)

I would like ‘user friendly’ urls like:

/west_conference/ (shows league ‘west_conference’)
/west_conference/teams (lists all the teams in the west conference)
/west_conference/eagles (shows the team ‘eagles’)
/west_conference/eagles/players (lists all players on the eagles)
/west_conference/eagles/smith (shows the player ‘smith’)

How do I configure my Rails3 app to add user_friendly urls like this?

There are several ways to do this. Most of them involve overriding
to_param and/or installing a gem such as friendly_id or permalink_fu.
Search the list archives for ideas; this comes up pretty frequently.

tx, Andy

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]