Customize resource routing in Rails 4

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think of the resource routing of a photo-class for example.

If I this to my routes.rb I will get following routes:

resources :photos

# GET '/photos/', :to => 'photos#index'
# GET '/photos/:photo_id/, :to => 'photos#show'
# and so on and so on

Now what I want is to replace the word /photos in all the routes with a simple /p so that I can get a short URL like /p/1 for the first photo. Is there a way to simply alter the resource-line or do I have to manually add each route?

sajinmp · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-30 11:44:52Z

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This will make all your routes via :photos through p

resources :p, :controller => "photos"

answered May 30, 2016 at 11:44

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Stan · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-30 13:57:59Z

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To be more concise and avoid the issue with p_id, you could do it like this :

resources :photos, path: 'p'

This way, you benefits from the readibility on your end (it will generate helpers like edit_photo_path, you will access variables as photo_id in case of a nested route and such) and generate the named URLs you do want.

answered May 30, 2016 at 13:57

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