Routes - how to display in url ID and the name of article?

Question

I have the Articles controller and for displaying the respective article I use the basic routes - example.com/articles/4.

I would like to change this URL format to example.com/4-article-name or example.com/article-name-4.

Could anyone give me a tip, how to do that?

Thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 16 '12 at 13:09

Ryan Bates(Railscast.com) seems to have done an episode that solves your problem:

/app/models/article.rb 
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  def to_param
    "#{id} #{name}".parameterize
  end
end

See: http://railscasts.com/episodes/314-pretty-urls-with-friendlyid?view=asciicast

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '12 at 13:14

Generally numbers on the beginning is the most elegant way, since in ruby it could be very easily converted to integer, for instance '123-foo-bar'.to_i will return 123. See http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/to_param you'll find how to change this mechanism.

Routes - how to display in url ID and the name of article?

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