Routing Questions

Rails
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I have two questions on routing if any one has some spare time.

  1. Is there any way to declare a resource and have its routes use
    something other than :id? so that it ends up that /users/:user_name maps
    to the show action

  2. I noticed when I define a custom rout like

match ‘/passwords/:user_name/edit’

I don’t get any named paths that show up when I run rake routes

Is there any way to say something like

match ‘/passwords/:user_name/edit’, :name => :change_password

so that I can use it like

link_to change_password_path @user

Thank you every one hope all is well

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Thank you

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On Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:49:39 PM UTC-6, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

I have two questions on routing if any one has some spare time.

  1. Is there any way to declare a resource and have its routes use
    something other than :id? so that it ends up that /users/:user_name maps
    to the show action

Not that I know of (certainly not mentioned in the Guides or docs.

  1. I noticed when I define a custom rout like

match ‘/passwords/:user_name/edit’

I don’t get any named paths that show up when I run rake routes

Is there any way to say something like

match ‘/passwords/:user_name/edit’, :name => :change_password

Yes, just use :as instead of :name

match ‘/passwords/:user_name/edit’ => ‘password#edit’, :as =>
:change_password

This gives you:

rake routes
change_password /passwords/:user_name/edit(.:format)
{:controller=>“password”, :action=>“edit”}

Then you can use:

change_password_path(@user) # assuming @user.user_name exists