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I want to have the URL of a users profile in this format: mydomain.com/username I have started to implement it in the user model: user.rb <pre><code>before_create :create_permalink . . def to_param permalink end . . private def create_permalink self.permalink = username.downcase end </code></pre> users_controller.rb <pre><code>def show @user = User.find_by_permalink(params[:permalink]) end </code></pre> routes.rb <pre><code>match "/:permalink", to: "users#show", via: 'get' </code></pre> When I visit mydomain.com/username a user profile does display but when I do it through the <code>user_path(current_user)</code> link, I get this error <pre><code>undefined method `username' for nil:NilClass </code></pre> and the URL is mydomain.com/user/username, which I don't want. How do I edit the default rails route and edit user route to be in the format I want? routes.rb: <pre><code>Code::Application.routes.draw do resources :users, except: [:edit, :show] resources :sessions, only: [:new, :create, :destroy] root 'pages#home' match '/help', to: 'pages#help', via: 'get' match '/about', to: 'pages#about', via: 'get' match '/contact', to: 'pages#contact', via: 'get' match '/signup', to: 'users#new', via: 'get' match '/signin', to: 'sessions#new', via: 'get' match '/signout', to: 'sessions#destroy', via: 'delete' get '/:permalink', to: 'users#show', as: 'user' get '/:permalink/edit', to: 'users#edit', as: 'edit_user' end </code></pre> After removing just the <code>as: 'user'</code> line and left <code>as: 'edit_user'</code> I ran <code>bundle exec rake routes | grep -i "user"</code>: <pre><code> users GET /users(.:format) users#index POST /users(.:format) users#create new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new user PATCH /users/:id(.:format) users#update PUT /users/:id(.:format) users#update DELETE /users/:id(.:format) users#destroy signup GET /signup(.:format) users#new GET /:permalink(.:format) users#show edit_user GET /:permalink/edit(.:format) users#edit </code></pre>
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