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copied!<p>Jon Smock's solution will work, too. I tend to prefer the following.</p> <pre><code>class Hamburger << ActiveRecord::Base #this normally defaults to id def to_param name end end class SomeModelController << ApplicationController def show @hamburger = Hamburger.find(params[:id]) #still default code end end #goes in some view This is the <%= link_to "tastiest hamburger ever", url_for(@hamburger) %>. </code></pre> <p>This is, loosely speaking, an SEO technique (beautiful URLs are also user-friendly and I suggest them to absolutely everyone even if you don't care about SEO, for example on pages behind a login). I have a more extended discussion of Rails SEO, which includes other tips like this, <a href="http://www.bingocardcreator.com/rails-seo-tips.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>Important tip:</strong> You should consider, at design-time, what you are going to do if the <code>param</code> should change. For example, in my hamburger scenario, it is entirely possible that I might rename "Sinfully Delicious Cheeseburger" to "Triple Bypass". If that changes URLs, there are some possible implications, such as breakage of customer links to my website. Accordingly, for production use I usually give these models an immutable <code>permalink</code> attribute which I initialize to be human-meaningful <em>exactly once</em>. If the object later changes, oh well, the URL stays the same. (There are other solutions -- that is just the easiest one.)</p>

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