Rails - Apr 2006 - Possible to use dashes instead of underscores in rails?

Hi all -

My boss is asking me if we can have dashes instead of underscores in the 
URL for SEO reasons.  Apparently google prefers "foo-bar" to
"foo_bar".
The former will be found when searching for just "foo", but not the 
latter.

So, I''m wondering if there is a way without changing any of my code 
if I can tell rails to use dashes instead of underscores?

Any ideas?

Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> My boss is asking me if we can have dashes instead of underscores in the
> URL for SEO reasons.  Apparently google prefers "foo-bar" to
"foo_bar".
> The former will be found when searching for just "foo", but not
the
> latter.
> 
> So, I''m wondering if there is a way without changing any of my
code
> if I can tell rails to use dashes instead of underscores?
> 
> Any ideas?
Im a n00b but, maybe look into mapping it like this:
map.connect ''foo-bar'', :controller => "foo_bar"

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edit
 Im a n00b but, maybe look into mapping it like this:
 map.connect ''/foo-bar'', :controller => "foo_bar"


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edit
Im a n00b but, maybe look into mapping it like this:
map.connect ''/foo-bar/:action'', :controller =>
"foo_bar"


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How would this affect say a link_to call in a view...

say

link_to "some place", :controller =>
"does_this_need_underscores", :action
=> "act"

Would this then be mapped to the dash route?

On 4/27/06, Mohammad <name.goes.here44@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> edit
> Im a n00b but, maybe look into mapping it like this:
> map.connect ''/foo-bar/:action'', :controller =>
"foo_bar"
>
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I think so but rendering I would test
<a href="/contoller/action">Text</a>
so map should fix. As for rendering that needs to be ran by a test

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Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> My boss is asking me if we can have dashes instead of underscores in the
> URL for SEO reasons.  Apparently google prefers "foo-bar" to
"foo_bar".
> The former will be found when searching for just "foo", but not
the
> latter.
> 
> So, I''m wondering if there is a way without changing any of my
code
> if I can tell rails to use dashes instead of underscores?
> 
> Any ideas?
map.connect ''foo-bar/:action/:id'',
  :controller => ''foo_bar'',
  :action => nil,
  :id => nil

url_for :controller => ''foo_bar''
  #=> /foo-bar

url_for :controller => ''foo_bar'',
        :action     => ''narf''
  #=> /foo-bar/narf

url_for :controller => ''foo_bar'',
        :action     => ''show'',
        :id         => @foo.id

  #=> /foo-bar/show/123


Setting the routing params to nil tell the router they are optional.

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