通过用户名路由到个人资料页面

Question

I am working on a social media site and I am having a problem with routing.

Every user has a profile page like facebook and this is the root I use:

get 'profile(/:id)' => 'profiles#show'

So, when the URL is like this: www.sitename.com/profile/1 it opens up the page belongs to user with id 1. But, I also want users to be able to use their usernames in url without /profile/. So it is gonna be like facebook.

For example: www.sitename.com/handsomeboy69

How can I do this in routing? Because, rails may think that username passed in URL is a page name.

Thank you

Answer 1

I fixed it. This is the route I used:

  get ':username' => 'profiles#show'

In the controller I used this statement:

if params.has_key?(:username)
  @profile = User.find_by_username(params[:username])
elsif params.has_key?(:id)
  @profile = User.find(params[:id])
else

end

else statement at the end is empty, I am gonna use that area to print out error message saying that profile cannot be found.

and most important part is that this routing should be at the end of the file.