Question

in Rails, I have a user model with :id and :name.
If I use

match '/:id' => 'users#show'

in config/route.rb, with

http://app.com/1 

I see the user, but if I use

match '/:name' => 'users#show'

don’t work, any idea ?

Answer 1

Are you using generated controllers? The show action probably expects an id parameter (which is why it works). You need to use the correct ActiveRecord finder, such as User.find_by_name if you want to pass in the name parameter.