Question

I have the Articles controller and for displaying the respective article I use the basic routes – example.com/articles/4.

I would like to change this URL format to example.com/4-article-name or example.com/article-name-4.

Could anyone give me a tip, how to do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

Ryan Bates(Railscast.com) seems to have done an episode that solves your problem:

/app/models/article.rb 
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  def to_param
    "#{id} #{name}".parameterize
  end
end

See: http://railscasts.com/episodes/314-pretty-urls-with-friendlyid?view=asciicast