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POrenaming routes (map, link_to, to_param) in rails
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    copied!<p>I'm having a little issue...I setup a rails application that is to serve a german website. To make use of Rails' internal pluralization features, I kept all my models in english (e.g. the model "<code>JobDescription</code>"). Now, if I call "<code>http://mysite.com/job_descriptions/</code>", I get all my <code>job_descriptions</code>....so far, so good. Because I didn't want the english term "<code>job_descriptions</code>" in my url, I put the following into my routes.rb</p> <pre><code>map.german_term '/german_term', :controller =&gt; 'job_descriptions', :action =&gt; 'index' map.german_term '/german_term/:id', :controller =&gt; 'job_descriptions', :action =&gt; 'show' </code></pre> <p>If I call "<code>http://mysite.com/german_term/</code>" or "<code>http://mysite.com/german_term/283</code>" I get all my <code>job_descriptions</code>, which is fine.</p> <p>However, to make the URL more SEO friendly, I'd like to exchange the id for a more userfriendly slug in the URL. Thus, I put the following in my <code>job_description.rb</code>:</p> <pre><code>def to_param "#{id}-#{name.gsub(/[^a-z0-9]+/i, '-')}" end </code></pre> <p>which, whenever I use "<code>job_description_path</code>" in any <code>link_to</code> method, renders my URLs out to something like "<a href="http://mysite/job_descriptions/13-my-job-description-title" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mysite/job_descriptions/13-my-job-description-title</a>".</p> <p>However, and this is where I'm stuck, I'd like to get "<code>http://mysite/german_term/13-my-job-description-title</code>". I already tried to exchange the "<code>job_description_path</code>" with "<code>german_term_path</code>" in the link_to code, but that only generates "<code>http://mysite/german_term/13</code>". Obviously, <code>to_param</code> isn't called. One workaround I found is to build the link with:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%= link_to job_description.name, german_term_path(job_description.to_param) %&gt; </code></pre> <p>But that's rather tedious to change all the <code>link_to</code> calls in my code. What I want is to replace "<code>job_description</code>" by "<code>german_term</code>" whenever it occurs in a URL.</p> <p>Any thoughts?!?</p> <p>Regards, </p> <p>Sebastian</p>
 

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