Question

In Rails the default path for a post ‘show’ action would be /post/:id.
How do I change it something like /post/:pid?

I have read about overriding the to_param method

def to_param
  self.pid
end

That makes passing the pid of the post instance, but it would be available in the action as
params[:id] which is not apt.

What I would like is params[:pid] in any action would give me the pid of the post instance.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Try to put this in the routes:

match "/post/:pid" => "post#show"