Rails routes with :name instead of :id url parameters

Question

I have a controller named \'companies\' and rather than the urls for each company being denoted with an :id I\'d like to have the url use their :name such as: url/comp

Answer 1

There's actually no magic to implement this, you have to either build it yourself by correctly implementing to_param at your model (not recommended) or using one of the gems available for this like:

• friendly_id
• has_permalink

I use friendly_id and it does the job nicely.