Question

Having some issues, I want my urls for the show action to be like:

/post/some-title

i.e. so wherever I reference the show_post_path tag (or whatever it is) it should make that url.

BUT, when editing/updating I want to do this using the ID of the post ie.

/post/234/edit

How can I achieve this, it seems what I am doing is messing things up because I used:

def to_param
  #{title}"
end

In my post model.

Answer 1

I always add an attribute called ‘slug’ to posts and it acts as a slug for that post.
Then just find your posts with Post.find_by_slug(params[:id]).
You can even make it translatable.