Rails how to use 2 of the same slugs

Question

I am using slugs in my project to give my params an other name but I have two params called: "how-does-it-work". (.../investor/how-does-it-work) (.../customer/how-does-it-work) I would like to use the slugs as how they are currently set. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Create two distinct routes/controllers, and simply query the corresponding ActiveRecord model in the show action. Assuming there is a slug field on your models:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  resources :customers
  resources :investors
end

class CustomersController < ApplicationController
  def show
    @customer = Customer.find_by(slug: params[:id])
  end
end

class InvestorsController < ApplicationController
  def show
    @investor= Investor.find_by(slug: params[:id])
  end
end

This is probably the most conventional way to solve this problem in Rails. If you are using the friendly_id gem, the same approach more or less applies, except for maybe the query itself.

Hope this helps.