# Routing question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/165499>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 14, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/165499 "2009-04-14T16:00:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![DanC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@DanC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DanC)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/165499/1 "2009-04-14T16:00:20Z")

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I have a resource for jobs on my application and I am familiar with  
RESTful routes etc. I am also happy adding some custom routes to my  
controller.

My question is, can I create an alias controller, i.e. instead of  
[www.mysite.com/jobs](http://www.mysite.com/jobs) can I use [www.mysite.com/alias](http://www.mysite.com/alias) as the ‘jobs’  
isn’t very intuitive for what the app is doing.

Can I do this in routes.rb so I don’t have to create any files?

Better still would be to set up a sub-domain type route that worked  
like [alias.mysite.com](http://alias.mysite.com) = [mysite.com/jobs](http://mysite.com/jobs)

Again I am unsure on whether this is possible.

Any advice or quality links to good resources would be appreciated

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![DanC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@DanC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DanC)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/165499/2 "2009-04-14T22:21:00Z")

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map.resources :jobs, :as =\> :alias

Hope that helps!  
Tm