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

Model.find(primary_key)
The default parameter here is primary_key id. If you want to use other columns, you should use Model.find_by_xxx so here it could be

def show
  @company = Company.find_by_name(params[:name])
end