On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Conrad Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:51 AM, 7stud -- <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Conrad Taylor wrote in post #1019393:
>> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Bruno Meira <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> > Bruno, I would recommend reading section 4.2 of the Rails routing guide:
>> >
>>
>> I read that, and I don't see how applying a regex to the id will help.
>> How about adding :show to the :except clause and doing this:
>>
>> match '/:id' => 'users/show'
>> resources :users, :except=>[:destroy, :show]
>>
>>
> If you apply the regex to the :id, then one can restrict the value of
> the :id to one or more digits.  In the above, :id is simply a placeholder
> and can accept any value.  Thus, the following should work for the
> original poster:
>
> match '/:id' => 'users#show', :constraints => { :id => /[0-9]+/ }
>

A much better regular expression which matches a value of an :id should be
something like the following:

match '/:id' => 'users#show', :constraints => { :id => /^[1-9]\d*/ }

Note:  The above says that I have at least one digit >= 1 starting with the
first digit.

-Conrad


>
> resources :users, :except=> [ :destroy, :show ]
>
>
Good luck,
>
> -Conrad
>
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