1-st level routes for multiple resources in Rails
- by Leonid Shevtsov
I have a simple SEO task. There's a City model and a Brand model, and I have to create 1st-level URLs for both (e.g. site.com/honda and site.com/boston).
What's the preferred routing/controller combination to do this in Rails? I can only think of
map.connect '/:id', :controller => 'catchall', :action => 'index'
class CatchallController < ApplicationController
def index
if City.exists?(:slug => params[:id])
@city = City.find_by_slug!(params[:id])
render 'cities/show'
else
@brand = Brand.find_by_slug!(params[:id])
render 'brands/show'
end
end
end
but it seems to be very un-Rails to put such logic into the controller.
(Obviously I need to make sure that the slugs don't overlap in the models, that's done).
