Question

I want to be able to have post permalinks appear in the root of the site. So, for example, a post with a permalink “hello-world” should appear as “mysite.com/hello-world”, instead of “mysite.com/posts_controller/hello-world.”

How would I go about doing something like this?

Answer 1

I believe that you already have a “slug” field in your posts model.
If your post controller has that into account, you just need to add the correct route for instance:

match '/:slug' => "Posts#show"

Otherwise, if don’t have the slug in your model, you can use the Stringex plugin. It’s an easy way to automatic create slugs for your posts.

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_url :title
end

It will create the slug from your title and save it to the slug column.

In the controller you can find the correct post like this:

def show
  @post = Post.find_by_slug(params[:slug])
end