Question

This may be a basic question, and I’m not even sure if it’s possible, but here goes.

If I have a event model which is composed of events, and the URLs are /events to see all, and /events/:id to see an individual event… Can I also do something like /events/:status to redirect to the index controller and show say, previous, inactive events and so on based on what that status is, but also preserve the /events/:id functionality?

So basically:

/events/17 would bring me to the 17th event created and /events/previous would bring me to a listing of all events that have come and gone.

Is this possible? if so, how would I setup the routes?

I tried:

match "/events/:status" => "events#index"

resources :events

but that just overrides the :id one, so I can no longer get to an individual event. I’m still learning all of the terminology of rails, so my searching abilities are a little limited.

Answer 1

Try this:

match "/events/previous" => "events#index", :defaults => { :status => 'previous' }

This assumes your status is of limit number, so you could define them all each in online manually.