Question

I want to let users have links to their profiles using their registered usernames.

I store their username exactly how they give it.

I set up my routes to match /:name and then used find_by_name to get it. The problem I have is when you type in example.com/username it doesn’t work the name: Username. (Note the uppercase/lowercase difference)

So my question is how can I ignore case in urls?

Answer 1

You can store the username downcased along with a display_name which is in the format they gave it to you. Then, downcase any input and match it with username and only use display_name for, well, display 🙂

If you wanted, you could even redirect to /DisPlAyName from /username after you look up the record.