I'm creating a blog for myself with Rails 3.2.5, and am trying to handle tags and categories properly. I want to allow the user to click on a link_to with the tag name that brings them to other entries with the same tag and have the URL be 'root.com/tag/selected-tag'. For categories I'd like to have the same thing with the URL being 'root.com/category/selected-category'. I've already started on this and am using acts_as_taggable_on for tagging and a simple text input for the category (will become a select input when I decide what categories I want).
How would I go about handling this? I've tried creating a controller for tags and categories, each with only an index action. For 'tags#index' I have:
@entries = Entry.order('created_at desc').tagged_with(params[:format]).paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 10)
and for each tag's link I have:
= link_to tag, tag_path(tag)
For some reason the tag is being passed as the :format, that's why I've got tagged_with(params[:format]).
I have 'categories#index' defined as:
@entries = Entry.order('created_at desc').where(:category => params[:format]).paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 10)
and the category's link is:
- entry.tag_list.each do |tag|
= link_to tag, tag_path(tag)
Since the tags and category are being passed as the :format the URL's are appearing as 'root.com/tag.selected-tag' and 'root.com/category.selected-category'.
How would I go about handling tags and categories properly to achieve getting the URL's to appear as 'root.com/tag/selected-tag' and 'root.com/category/selected-category'?
The below will probably do what you want:
In your routes:
match 'tag/:tag' => 'tags#index', :as => :tag
Then, when someone visits example.com/tag/some-tag-here, you can then access the tag within your controller through:
params[:tag]
you can link to your route by doing:
link_to tag, tag_path(:tag => tag)
An analogous solution should work for categories as well.