Rails nesting routes with aliasing

Question

I have a set of products that I want available with the full file path and helper functions, but I want to shorten their URLs. Like this:

http://example.com/p/fb

And I would like that to route like this:

product_foobar GET    /p/fb(.:format)                products/foobar#show

Product is just a namespace, so I know I can namespace it in the routes:

namespace :product do
  resource :foobar
end

But that results in this route:

product_foobar GET    /product/foobar(.:format)      product/foobars#show

Is it possible to just alias the URL like that?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4696229/as-in-rails-routes-rb I guess this could be helpful, having a named route — Claudiu S, Sep 18 '13 at 19:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '13 at 19:39

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Found it. Add this line to routes.rb:

get '/p/fb' => "product/foobar#show"

answered Sep 18 '13 at 19:39

kid_drew

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