Question

For example,

http://www.quora.com/Is-getting-ripped-worth-it

As you can see, the URL for a question does not have a controller’s name. It is associated with the root URL. How can I do this?

In routes.rb, I tried the following:

match '/:id' => "questions#show"

That works, but new_question or edit_question paths still generate /questions/new(.:format) and /questions/:id/edit(.:format) as URLs.

Are there any elegant solutions for this problem?

Answer 1

There is nothing that prevents you from doing this:

match '/new' => "questions#new", :as => 'new_question'
match '/:id/edit' => "questions#edit", :as => 'edit_question'

but you’ll have to remove :resources questions

One elegant solution is to use the friendly_id gem: https://github.com/norman/friendly_id

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