Drawing routes using user name in Rails 3 w/ devise

Question

Given a one to many relationship between a user managed with devise and a \"thing\", my goal is to draw restful routes like:

http://host/username
http://host         


        

Answer 1

You can also use resource :user, path: ':id' do ... end

Also don't forget to define to_param in your user modal & use User.find_by_username(params[:id]) in your controller.