I have installed and used friendly_id to remove the blog id out of my url, and replaced it with the blog title. However, I also need to remove the controller name out of the url:
currently: appname/blogs/one-of-the-blog-posts
what I would like: appname/one-of-the-blog-posts
I'm doing this because I'm rebuilding a site for someone and their twitter posts link to there current site that I'm replacing, but the links of those posts are formatted as such: appname/one-of-the-blog-posts. Since these posts cant be updated via twitter this is the only way I can think of to make them link to the new site I'm building. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I have scoured google for a while and haven't been able to find a definitive answer to this. Thanks in advance.
routes
AppName::Application.routes.draw do
root 'pages#index'
get 'about', to: 'pages#about'
get 'contacts', to: 'contacts#new'
resources 'contacts', only: [:new, :create]
get 'locations/tampa', to: 'locations#tampa'
get 'locations/jacksonville', to: 'locations#jacksonville'
get 'locations/orlando', to: 'locations#orlando'
get 'locations/st_petersburg', to: 'locations#stpetersburg'
resources :locations do
resources :photos, only: :create
end
resources 'blogs'
get 'faqs', to: 'pages#faqs'
get 'whats_included', to: 'pages#whats_included'
end
blogs controller
class BlogsController < ApplicationController
before_action :set_blog, only: [:edit, :update, :show]
def index
@blogs = Blog.order("created_at DESC")
end
def new
@blog = Blog.new
end
def create
@blog = Blog.new(blog_params)
if @blog.save
flash[:notice] = "New Blog Added"
redirect_to blogs_path
else
flash.now[:error] = 'Cannot Create Blog'
render 'new'
end
end
def edit
end
def update
@blog.update_attributes(blog_params)
redirect_to blogs_path(@blog)
end
def show
@location = Location.all
end
private
def set_blog
@blog = Blog.friendly.find(params[:id])
end
def blog_params
params.require(:blog).permit(:title, :description, :date, :property, :city, :author)
end
end
