Username in urls for nested routes

Question

I'm a new rails developer making an application where I have a user profile like: localhost:3000/posts routing to localhost:3000/Charles where Charles is the username.

So the code I'm using to do this looks like:

routes.rb

match "/:username" => "posts#index"

and then in my controller:

@user = User.find_by_username params[:username]
@search = Post.search do |query|
    query.fulltext params[:search]
    query.with(:user, @user.id)
end

this works great just for the post index, but I'd like to have posts/18 (for example) be routed to /username/posts/18.

So basically, I'm asking if there's a way to do something like this:

match "/:username" => "posts#index" do
  resources :posts
end

Thanks for all help!

Answer 1

This

  scope '/:username' do
    resources :posts
  end

produces what you want:

    posts GET    /:username/posts(.:format)          posts#index
          POST   /:username/posts(.:format)          posts#create
 new_post GET    /:username/posts/new(.:format)      posts#new
edit_post GET    /:username/posts/:id/edit(.:format) posts#edit
     post GET    /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#show
          PATCH  /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#update
          PUT    /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#update
          DELETE /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#destroy

Answer 2

Try

scope ':username' do
  resources :posts
end

bundle exec rake routes

    posts GET    /:username/posts(.:format)          posts#index
          POST   /:username/posts(.:format)          posts#create
 new_post GET    /:username/posts/new(.:format)      posts#new
edit_post GET    /:username/posts/:id/edit(.:format) posts#edit
     post GET    /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#show
          PUT    /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#update
          DELETE /:username/posts/:id(.:format)      posts#destroy

Answer 3

match "/:username/posts/:id" => "posts#show"

But that won't really help when you need to edits and such. So, try:

scope "/:username" do
  resources :posts
end

That failing:

scope "/:username" do
  get '' => "posts#index"
  get 'posts/:id' => "posts#show"
end

Hopefully the first will work. Haven't tried it myself so forgive me, but I'm pretty sure that, in general, scope is what you want.