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Osgaldor Storm
1,119 PointsRails: How do I?
I want to incorporate a feature into a site I'm designing in rails. I want to be able to assign a user his/her own url to their profile page in the form of www.mydomain.com/userprofilepage How will i need to do this? Surely I don't want to give every user a named route in routes.rb?
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Unsubscribed User
4,776 PointsMaybe you need to override the to_param method in your User model with whatever the user sets, as this StackOverflow answer demonstrates. I'd create a new table which is linked to the User model and holds the custom URLs and the corresponding User IDs (this way it will be easier to validate uniqueness).
Osgaldor Storm
1,119 PointsThank you! I should have known there would bean easy solution.