fousa blog

Another great and awesome informational article by me!

PROBLEM

When you create a new model (for example Post) you'll also have a posts_controller. This controller will be called from following URL: /posts/.

But because I like clean URL's, I prefer it to be called /blog/.

SOLUTION

What I certainly don't want to do is change the name of the controller... I prefer to do this otherwise... Behold!

Add the line below to your routes.rb

map.resources :posts, :as => "blog"

This will enable the URL /blog/. All your generated post paths (like posts_path) will use the new posts name (blog that is).

Will /posts/ still work?

Off course! And you can put both resource lines in your routes.rb. The first one will be the default used!

map.resources :posts, :as => "blog" map.resources :posts

In this case posts_path will show /blog/.

map.resources :posts map.resources :posts, :as => "blog"

Now posts_path will show /posts/.

This can be very handy when you are not satisfied with you URL's.