Rearranging parts of the URL result from link_to in Rails

This is how I'm doing it now:

link_to "Profile", :controller => "profiles", :action => "asked", :id => @profile
# => <a href="/profiles/asked/1">Profile</a>

Does it make more sense for the URL to be <a href="/profiles/1/asked">Profile</a>? Profile 1 asked some number of questions, so it makes more sense to me for the URL to look like: /:controller/:id/:action.

If you agree, how do I accomplish this?开发者_运维问答

If you don't agree, please let me know why. (I'm new to Ruby on Rails, so I'm still getting used to MVC conventions.)

Any advice would be great!

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Yes you can! This is the case of a named route! All you have to do is, in your route.rb add this link:

map.asked 'profiles/:id/asked', :controller => 'profiles', :action => 'asked'

This route can be invoked with asked_path(:id => @profile) Just change your link_to in the views to:

link_to "Profile", asked_path(:id => @profile)

I don't deserve an upvote for this as i just pulled it out from the routes.rb file itself. If you looked carefully at the autogenerated routes.rb you'll see this:

  # Sample of named route:
  #   map.purchase 'products/:id/purchase', :controller => 'catalog', :action => 'purchase'
  # This route can be invoked with purchase_url(:id => product.id)

If you want to make it more generic, i have not tried it.. but i guess it should work nevertheless:

map.routeany ":controller/:id/:action"

and in the view:

link_to "Route to something...", routeany_path(:controller => "somecontroller", :action => "someaction", :id => @somecontroller)

Anyways, cheers! :)