Suppose I want to have a blog with Rails 3 on my website and it will be the only thing I have on it. I would like to use Rails to implement it but I don't like the URLs Rails produces. I would like URLs like this:
example.com/2012/05/10/foo
I don't want something like that which I know how to do (with to_param):
example.com/entries/2012/05/10/foo
I still want to use the helpers like
new_entry_path(@entry) # -> example.com/new
entry_path(@entry) # -> example.com/2012/05/10/foo
edit_entry_path(@entry) # -> example.com/2012/05/10/foo/edit
destroy_entry_path(@entry)
form_for(@entry)
link_to(@entry.title, @entry)
and so on. I then will have comments and want to make them accessible as their own resources too, like
example.com/2012/05/10/foo/comments/5
and those urls should also be possible to get with the normal helpers:
edit_entry_comment_path(@entry, @comment) # -> example.com/2012/05/10/foo/comments/5/edit
or something like that.
So is it possible to get URLs without the controller name and still use the url helper methods? Just overwriting to_param will always just change the part after the controller name in the url. It would be really helpful to get some example code.
Your routes.rb probably has a line something like this:
resources :entries
which produces routes of the form /entries/2012/05/10/foo.
There exists a :path argument that allows you to use something besides the default name entries. For example:
resources :entries, :path => 'my-cool-path'
will produce routes of the form /my-cool-path/2012/05/10/foo.
But, if we pass an empty string to :path, we see the behavior you're looking for:
resources :entries, :path => ''
will produce routes of the form /2012/05/10/foo.