Question

I need to setup the following urls:

/article (article#index)
/articles/1234  ( article#show with id 1234)
/articles/new  (article#new)

Can I define this using:

resources :article do
  ???
end

Answer 1

If we look very closely at your question, it appears that you want the index to be at /article instead of the default Rails REST convention, which is /articles

It doesn’t make any apparent sense to model your routes that way, but if that is surely what you want to do, then you could add one more route line in addition to the call to resources

resources :articles
match '/article', :to => 'articles#index'