Question

First off, I’m using rails 3.0.8 with friendly_id 3.2.1.1.

I’d like to be able to view the posts at website.com/:title, so drop the “/posts”.

But I’d also like to have an /admin view. From there, a user should be able to create/edit/destroy posts. I already have a admin.html.erb view with links to various actions.

Right now my routes file look like:

MyApp::Application.routes.draw do
  root :to => 'posts#index'
  resources :posts
  match "/:id" => "posts#show"
  match "/admin" => "posts#admin"
end

This works for website.com/:title, but for website.com/admin I get an error:

Couldn't find Post with ID=admin

…. which makes sense. But I’m not sure how to solve this problem.

Answer 1

The rules are run through top to bottom. So put your admin rule on top of the resource definition.