I think you don't need to modify the route dynamically. You need to use routes dynamic segments
so basically you should add the following line at the bottom of your routes.rb.
get '/:store_name(.:format)', to: 'public/stores', as: 'public_stores'
IMPORTANT NOTE
You must place this line at the bottom of you routes.rb so it wouldn't affect the other routes and it will be the last route to be tested.
Basically when a use navigate to http://yourdomain.name/store_name the routes.rb will send the request to the public_controller then to stores actions in the stores action you can grab the store_name from the url and look at it in your database then present it to the requester.
You can also utilize the friendly_id gem to enhance the process and to ensure the uniqueness of the store name.
Another Technique
You can place the following code in your routes.rb file
Store.all.each do |store|
get "/#{store.name.parameterize}", to: 'public#store', store_id: store.id
end
- You must make sure that the stores names are unique.
- You should also place this at the bottom of your page to ensure that there will be no conflict.
but I prefer the first rule as it is more clean and what if you have like million store. then this would slow down the performance of your app.
