This tutorial was written using Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.2.2 and Rubygems 1.3.1.
This question has been coming up a lot recently. People want urls like http://domain.com/frozenplague-rules-my-world but they don’t know how to do it.
Let’s say you have a model called Blog and this is what you want to match to http://domain.com/frozenplague-rules-my-world. In this model you define:
app/models/blog.rb
def to_param
"#{id}-#{title.parameterize}"
end
And then this in your config/routes.rb
map.connect ':slug', :controller => "blogs", :action => "show"
And now you should be able to access blogs through http://domain.com/frozenplague-rules-my-world.