Question

In the last we generated a useful link for our mail.
generate an real url with rails for an e-mail
This works fine, very fine. But we want to call the shoe-action 🙂

<%=link_to('Link', :controller => 'mycontroller', :action => 'show', :id => @mycontroller.id )%> 

The url looks so

http://localhost:3000/mycontroller/show/10

we need this structure

http://localhost:3000/mycontroller/10

The rake routes command said this

mycontroller GET    /mycontroller/:id(.:format)               mycontroller#show

How do we get the needed structure? Do we need to edit our routes, or is there another way to get the right url?

Answer 1

Try to use the route helper

  mycontroller_url(@mycontroller.id)

instead the {:controller => …, :action => …}

your link_to helper should look like this for better example i use the user show action

rake routes return this

user GET  /users/:id(.:format) users#show

and now I know I can use the user_url(@user) helper

<%=link_to('Link', user_url(@user) )%>