Question

In my app, users have messages.

resources :users do
   resources :messages
end

Users can access their profile with a pretty url, say /albert.

match ':username' => 'users#show', :as => 'username'

But not their messages!

user_message_path(@user, 1)

returns /users/1/messages/1. How do I get it to return /albert/messages/1?

Answer 1

In your routes add:

get ':username/messages/:id' => 'messages#show', :as => 'username_message'

To access, use username_message_path