rails URL rewriting using

Question

How to rewrite below URL

127.0.0.1:3000/article/index?type=1

as

127.0.0.1:3000/article/category/brand

where type 1 is category with name brand.

is it possible using rails?

route.rb

get "article/index"

article_controller.rb

def index
  @article =  Article.find(params[:type])
end

article.rb //model

class Article < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :category
end

link to this route

<%= link_to category.name, {:controller => "article", :action => "index", :type => category.id }%>

Answer 1

Rails doesn't provide what you are trying to achieve out of the box. Here I give you some suggestions to get you where you wanted to go.

1. routes.rb

get "articles/category/:id" => "articles#index", as: "articles_by_category"

As such nothing wrong with your configuration but not a good practice. Learn more about it here

2. models/article.rb - leave as is

3. Use https://github.com/norman/friendly_id Gem. Follow usage guide https://github.com/norman/friendly_id#usage to install and configure it.

4. models/category.rb

class Category < ApplicationRecord
  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :name, use: :slugged

  has_many :articles
end

5. <%= link_to category.name, articles_by_category_path(category.id) %>
   

6. article_controller.rb

def index
  @articles = Category.friendly.find(params[:id]).articles
end

P.S. the assumption here is there will be multiple articles for given category.