You could just do that for the show method. Depending on your situation. If you were to pass the username in the query string just use a method like this:
def show @user = User.find_by_username(params[:id]) end -Chris On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Louis-Pierre Dahito < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > How do we create Permalinks for users in a Rails application ??? > By Permalink a mean the name of the user in the URL like so: > example.com/username... Or like twitter and everyone does it ex: > twitter.com/username... > > I checked everywhere for that and didnt find a relevant answer... > I think it has something to do with overriding the to_param method in > the User model... but according to this screencast from Ryan Bates, > http://railscasts.com/episodes/63-model-name-in-url, it's very risky to > remove the id from the url... > > Is there a way to do it ??? I suppose there is... > > Thx for your help... > > Louis-Pierre > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
