Question

I have a controller streams_controller and a model streams.

class StreamsController < ApplicationController
  def new
    @stream = Stream.new
  end

  def create
    @stream = Stream.new(params[:stream])
    if @stream.save
        flash[:success] = "Welcome!"
        redirect_to @stream
    else
        render 'new'
    end
  end


  def show
    @stream = Stream.find(params[:id])
  end
end

and

class Stream < ActiveRecord::Base
    attr_accessible :name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation
    before_save { |stream| stream.name = name.downcase }

    has_secure_password
.
.
.

Basically to work the show method, I have to go localhost/streams/[id] where [id] is the id of the particular Stream. Would it be possible to reroute the URL to go something like this: localhost/[name] where [name] is the :name attribute of the Stream model?

So basically a new URL would be created every time a new Stream is created, and it would correspond to the name of the Stream in the database.

How would I go about implementing this?

Anyways, any help or thoughts greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I would make the streams part of the url as short as possible, but not empty (to avoid collisions in the case of using just names instead of ids).

resources :streams, path: 's'

Url /s/stream-a isn’t that big compromise.

About using name instead of id in your url see this Railscast.