Question

What would be the best way to implement routes like github uses?

Ex:

github.com/about
github.com/37signals
github.com/javan

I’m guessing /about is a real controller, but the second and third probably load a user controller. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Write a route like match '/:id/' => 'user#show' for a user like javan and have the show action in the user controller look up the user by username.

So in the user controller:

@user = User.find_by_username(params[:id])

You can learn more about routes here.