如何将根请求路由到控制器？

Question

I have a controller called Videos. I'd like my URLs to be like this:

http://website/1

Rather than this:

http://website/videos/1

I'd also like to keep the functionality of controlling its content via /videos/ (edit, new, destroy, etc). Basically the show action is the only one that would be responding from root.

Is there a way to do this without messing up with the other controllers?

Answer 1

Just add a /:id route, that links to videos#show :

get '/:id' => 'videos#show'

You'll need to put this near the bottom of your routes file so that it doesn't match requests for things like /videos .

Answer 2

You can create all RESTful routes for a controller, without its name in path by using

resources :videos, path: ""

This will create all routes for videos controller like (index, new, edit, create etc)

If you want only a specific route to serve as this then you can pass that too with this like

resources :videos, path: "", only:[:show]

This will create only your desired path

http://website/1

and will not affect any other controllers.