How to get twitter / friendfeed as home urls in rails?

Question

I want to have twitter like friendly urls like http://twitter.com/username . How to do it in rails?

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Chirantan 25 Sep 09 at 12:28

2 answers

You can use the friendly_id gem.

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Jason punyon 25 Sep '09 at 12:38

Ben · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-25T13:16:06+0000

Probably the easiest way is to have the entire route at the bottom of the routing table. Something like:

map.connect '/:slug', :controller => 'users', :action => 'show'

Then in the custom controller ....

def show
  @user = User.find_by_username(params[:slug])
end

I also recommend catching ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound

to show the 404 page. You can put something like this in ApplicationController

:

rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, :with => :not_found

then define a method not_found

to display the error page or whatever.