Question

I have a rails route set up like:

match ':controller/:id/:action'
# match 'teams/:id' => "teams#show" # doesn't have any additional effect, which makes sense to me
resources :teams, :only => [:index, :show]

That way I can say /teams/cleveland-indians and it will call teams#show with :id => 'cleveland-indians'. Works great. My issue is that url_for doesn’t quite do what I want. In my views/teams/index view, I get this behavior:

url_for(:id => "cleveland-indians") # => /teams/cleveland-indians/index
url_for(:id => "cleveland-indians", :action => :show) # => /teams/cleveland-indians/show

Of course that second one behaves the way I want, but I’d like to get rid of the unnecessary /show at the end. I don’t know much about how these helpers work, but I’d have guessed it would know that show was the default action for a GET with a specified id, same as the routing engine does. Anyway, what’s the best way for me to take care of this? Or am I just doing it all wrong?

Answer 1

‘resources’ line should already provide you with the routes you probably want so you can just remove first ‘match’ line.

Note that you can also use ‘teams_path’, ‘team_path(“cleveland-indians”)’ instead of ‘url_for’.