Question

I’d like to be able to do …

resources :posts

… and be able to customize the contextual url to be …

:year/:month/:day/:id

… and still be able to do …

post_path post

This would have it generate /2012/1/1/something-something.

However it appears I have to …

get ':year/:id' => 'posts#show', as: 'posts'

Then in the view I have to …

post_path post.year, post.id instead of post_path post

Is there anyway to have the post_path helper pick up the extra parameters it needs for the route?

If not this seems like it might be worth a feature request.

Answer 1

Sounds like you need something like:

match "posts/:year/:month/:day/:id" => "posts#show", :constraints => { :year => /\d{4}/, :month => /\d{2}/, :day => /\d{2}/ }