Simplify url in rails

Question

I need just simplify url in my rails app. /nature instead /categories/nature

My routes.rb:

match 'categories/:id' => 'categories#show'

Erez Rabih · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-11 09:04:51Z

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match ':id' => 'categories#show'

This will make any request to '/something' to categories controller with show action though so you have to take that into account.

If I were you I'd do it more like that:

match ':id' => 'categories#show',:constraints => { :id => /nature|sports|architecture|people|.../ }

This way you can still use '/something' routes as you wish as long they don't match any of the available categories.

answered Aug 11, 2012 at 9:04

Erez Rabih

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Thank you! It works! But I forget about link_to in my view(it was like this "/category/#{c.id}")