(Ruby on Rails) Building a URL in routes.rb

Question

I'm new to Rails, so bear with me here. I'm trying to build the following URL:

localhost:3000/products/toyota

So, the homepage (localhost:3000 when I run the project locally) and the products page (localhost:3000/products) already exist, but I'm trying to create a toyota page (localhost:3000/products/toyota). The Toyota page has its own view (haml page/javascript) independent of the products page.

So, I tried this in config/routes.rb

get 'toyota', to: 'static#products#toyota'

but the toyota_url takes me to localhost:3000/toyota instead of localhost:3000/products/toyota.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Answer 1

You need this instead

get '/products/toyota', to: 'static#products#toyota', as: 'toyota'

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

As stated in the comment: it's get 'my/full/path', to: .... so try get 'products/toyota', to: 'static#products#toyota', :as => 'toyota'

But what I would recommend is the following. To keep it a bit more flexible - I assume you will have other vendors/products as well, create an action:

Route:

get 'products/:vendor', to: 'products#vendor'

Controller:

def vendor(id)
   @car_or_whatever = Product.find_by(....)     
end

View:

# file views/products/vendor.html.erb
<some fancy html>
   @car_or_whatever.name

   ... etc

From the docs: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#generating-paths-and-urls-from-code