customize rails url with username

Question

I want to copy the twitter profile page and have a url with a username \"http://www.my-app.com/username\" and while I can manually type this into the address bar and navigat

Answer 1

I know this questions is old but it will help someone.

You could try the below. I've used it in a rails 4 project and all seems to be working great. The reason for the as: :admin is I also had a resources posts outside of this scope. It will add a admin to the helper calls e.g. admin_posts_path

scope ":username", module: 'admin', as: :admin do
  get '', to: 'profiles#show'
  resources :posts
end