Rails - Feb 2006 - URL rewriting

Here is the scenario I am trying to achieve. Basically, I want to run
the action "show" from my controller, without adding the
"show/id".

Standard:
http://www.domain.com/controllerName/show/id

I would like:
http://www.domain.com/controllerName/randomstring (where randomstring is 
a
field in my model/table, that is equivalent to a GUID -> and unique).

I''m confused at how this would be possible, because you normally would
create an action in the controller, that is then used in the url.
Would this be a URL rewrite that would need to be added to .htaccess?
If so, the I would have to some how change the "show" action to not
use "id"?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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I believe you don''t need URL rewriting for this.
  
  I was trying to something similar so instead of 
  http://domain.com/post/id
  it will use http://domain/post/title
  
  and I ended up using something like:
  
  map.connect ''post/:mytitle'', :controller =>
"yourController", :action => ''show''
  
  Look around in routes.rb file.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Frank

Kevin <khillabolt@gmail.com> wrote:  Here is the scenario I am trying to
achieve. Basically, I want to run
the action "show" from my controller, without adding the
"show/id".

Standard:
http://www.domain.com/controllerName/show/id

I would like:
http://www.domain.com/controllerName/randomstring (where randomstring is 
a
field in my model/table, that is equivalent to a GUID -> and unique).

I''m confused at how this would be possible, because you normally would
create an action in the controller, that is then used in the url.
Would this be a URL rewrite that would need to be added to .htaccess?
If so, the I would have to some how change the "show" action to not
use "id"?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Hi Frank,

That looks like exactly what I was looking for. I will give it a try.

Thanks for your help...

Kevin

softwareengineer 99 wrote:
> I believe you don''t need URL rewriting for this.
> 
>   I was trying to something similar so instead of
>   http://domain.com/post/id
>   it will use http://domain/post/title
> 
>   and I ended up using something like:
> 
>   map.connect ''post/:mytitle'', :controller =>
"yourController", :action
> => ''show''
> 
>   Look around in routes.rb file.
> 
>   Hope this helps.
> 
>   Frank
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