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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T17:07:21+00:00 2026-05-22T17:07:21+00:00

Most tutorials about prettifying Urls in Rails explain how to get Urls like www.example.org/resource/3-some-sluggish-slug

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Most tutorials about prettifying Urls in Rails explain how to get Urls like www.example.org/resource/3-some-sluggish-slug, which is very easy by using the to_param method.

What I want is to prettify Urls in a Rails 3 app like Stackoverflow does (www.example.org/resource/3/some-sluggish-slug). The some-sluggish-slug could be any string there, it is just for having a nicer Url and is simply ignored by all logic (like in Stackoverflow). Is there an easy way to do that, too? Or do I have to rewrite the Url somehow before it gets to the routes file or in the routes file itself?

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    2026-05-22T17:07:22+00:00Added an answer on May 22, 2026 at 5:07 pm

    Follow the tutorials, but instead of having a hyphen after the ID, have a /. You will need to write a route to cope with this.

      match 'resource/:id', :to => 'resources#show', :id => /\d+\/[a-z0-9\-]+/, :as => 'public_post'
    
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