Rails route to username instead of id

Question

I am trying to change the rails routes from /users/1 to /username. I currently set this up so it works for the actions of showing and editing. The actual issue is that when

Answer 1

In the User model override the to_param method to return what you want used in the URL.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def to_param
    username
  end
end

In your controller instead of using User.find(params[:id]) you now need to use User.find_by_username(params[:id])