Named Routes in Rails

From Ronny Haryanto via the Rails Mailing List:


Interested in URLs that look something like this?


http://www.example.com/project/submarine


You can tell Rails to parse that URL in order to call the appropriate method on the controller.



 You might be interested in Named Routes.
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/NamedRoutes

In config/routes.rb:

   map.project 'project/:projtitle' :controller => 'project',
                                    :action => 'show'

In app/controllers/project_controller.rb:

   def show
     @project = Project.find(:first,
                             :conditions => ['title = ?',params[:projtitle]])
     ...
   end

Or something like that. Assuming your project titles are unique. Then
you can also use project_url (since you have map.project in routes.rb)
for urls in your views, e.g.

   <% for project in @projects %>
   <%= link_to project.title,
               project_url(:projtitle => project.title) %>
    ...
   <% end %>

Named Routes is a really cool feature, and one of the best of Rails,
I'd say.


Thanks Ronny!

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