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I currently have URLs which look like this:

things?category_id=6&country_id=17

and I would like to have URLs which look like this:

/printer_cartridges/united_kingdom

Is there a way in Rails 3, without hard coding all of the categories and countries in the router to have the URLs as I would like above, perhaps using find_by_name or the such like? What is the best way to approach this?

meager
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Gav
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    Read the Rails Guide on routing, especially Nested Resources: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#nested-resources – Dominic Feb 14 '11 at 18:34

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match '/:category_slug/:country_slug', :to => 'things#index'

Then you'll need to update your action to look up everything using params[:category_slug] and params[:country_slug] instead of the ids. Look at the slugged gem to generate slugs.

Jordan
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In your category model add the method

def to_param
   "#{category_name.parameterize}/#{location_name.parameterize}"
end

where category_name and location_name are where you input where you have have the names stored.

John
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