map.connect ':username', :controller => "users" , :action => "show"
At the bottom of your routes.rb file. ----- Ryan Bigg On 27/01/2009, at 1:07 PM, Louis-Pierre Dahito wrote: > > > > Brian Hogan wrote: >> LOL >> There's no reason to use to_param. It's just a convention to pass >> the >> id through the URL. It's type is not enforced. >> >> # expects /users/15 >> def edit >> @user = User.find(params[:id]) >> end >> >> # expects /users/bphogan >> def show >> @user = User.find_by_username(params[:id]) >> end >> >> The only thing to watch out for is that find throws a RecordNotFound >> exception when there is no record found, which will display a 404 in >> production, and find_by_username returns nil, so you'll wanna handle >> that. >> >> But there's no need to do anything funny with to_params or routing or >> anything like that. > > Thx a lot but I really do want to get rid of the /user before > "username" > so my url looks like this: http://mydomain.com/username... like i said > before... > http://twitter.com/gigaom for instance... How do i get rid of > "user/" in > the url ???? > > thx again > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
