Question

I am thinking about question in routing… I have for example following in URL:

example.com/john

and for this URL I did this in routes

match “*a” => “people#person”

and in controller
def profile
#I have “john” in params[:a] variable
…
end

And know I am thinking, how to do following URL

example.com/john/something

How I should edit my routes and my controller for this shape of URL. I am newbie in Rails, and a bit confused yet in routing…

Thank you

Answer 1

match ":a(/:b)" => "people#person"

# controller
def person
  a = params[:a]
  b = params[:b]
end