You could consider mapping the following route to products controller

/products/:type/:id

or have a look into friendly_id, which is along the same concept of
to_params, maybe use id like car-23, truck-37, boat-126

On 28 November 2010 23:52, Mark Ratjens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Suppose I have an ActiveRecord called Product. I can have different kinds of
> products, say "cars", "trucks" and "boats." Because of the nature of the
> app, there is no need to subclass product (i.e, the data and behaviour is
> the same) ...
>
> ... but for SEO reasons I want to be able to generate links in the app that
> include the kind of product, not just "product", for example:
>
> /cars/23
> /trucks/37
> /boats/126
>
> not:
>
> products/23 etc
>
> The thing I am tousling with is generating the appropriate link in the app.
> Is there some way I can adapt:
>
> link_to @product.name, @product
>
> to automagically generate a link with the right product kind ... or do I
> need to do it long-hand, i.e:
>
> link_to @product.name, :controller => @product.kind, :action => :show, :id
> => :product
>
> ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mark
>
>
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