Question

My routes.rb look like this:

#...
map.resources :users
map.root :controller => "main"
#...

My app user’s profiles are something like:

http://www.railsapp.com/users/3

I would like to change it to:

http://www.railsapp.com/3

Or even:

http://www.railsapp.com/username

How Rails 2.x router handles this situation?

Answer 1

Checkout some previous answers for ‘vanity’ urls:

How can I implement vanity URL's in a Rails application?

How to implement "short" nested vanity urls in rails?