Question

I have some resources in my routes file:

resources :snippets
resources :pastes

Users can access a snippet like this:

/snippets/72384
/pastes/ac6Xs28

As a short-hand, for tweets, IRC, etc… I want /s/<id> to be redirected to /snippets/<id>, and /p/<id> to /pastes/<id>. I want this redirection to use the Location HTTP header and the 301 Moved Permanently HTTP status code.

How am I about to do this? Thanks.

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_{I’m using Rails 3 with WEBrick}

Answer 1

You can do it in routes.rb

match "/s/:id", :to => redirect("/snippets/%{id}")

Here’s a nice overview of routing in Rails3.