Question

I’ve looked around for a while now, but I’m not sure how best to describe my request to google, so thought I’d ask here 😉

In rails, I know that when you nest restful routes, you generally get something like:

http://localhost/categories/1/articles/2

If you want something more meaningful, you can use slugs or friendly_id to get something like

http://localhost/categories/all-your-needs/articles/rock-out-with-this-article

(assuming you have unique names).

My question is, how can I remove the controller from the url rewriter so you get something like:

http://localhost/all-your-needs/rock-out-with-this-article

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes it is. You can use something like this:

Rails 2:

map.show_article ':category/:article', :controller => "articles", :action => "show"

Edit:

Ok. Here you have the urls for the other REST actions:

map.edit_article ':category/:article/edit', :controller => "articles", :action => "edit".

For update add :conditions => { :method => :post } to the previous one.

For delete, use the first one with :conditions => { :method => :delete }.

For new and create, you can use:

map.new_article ':category/new', :controller => "articles", :action => "new"

and for create the same but with :conditions => { :method => :post }. I hope I’ve been able to help you!