Rails - Jul 2006 - change url based on account name

Hi,


Is this possible

Can I specify a url ie 
http://localhost/AccountName/:contorller/:action/:id

Where AccountName is should be a userName, which will lookup a siteId in 
the database?

Whats the best way of going about this, is there somthing in the 
routes.rb file I can change to get the account name into a variable?

Thanks for your help
jon

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ok,

ive added this line of code to my routes file, that allows me to enter 
the url http://localhost/host_id/controller...

map.connect '':host/:controller/:action/:id''

How can I set rails to do Host.find(params[:host]) on load of every 
page?

I have tried putting this in the application.rb but it just says
undefined local variable or method `params'' for 
ApplicationController:Class

any suggestions?

thanks
jon

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> Can I specify a url ie 
> http://localhost/AccountName/:contorller/:action/:id
> 
> Where AccountName is should be a userName, which will lookup a siteId in 
> the database?
Yo!

you can specify the following routes...

map.connect '':user_name/:controller/:action/:id''
map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''

Then in ApplicationController

before_filter :set_site_id

def set_site_id
  u = User.find_by_user_name params[:user_name]
  params[:site_id] = u ? u.site_id : nil
  return true
end

Then in your actions,

def some_action
  @site = Site.find(params[:site_id])
end


Hope this helps...

Also, if you''re only going to use this route in a specific controller, 
put the before_filter and accompanying action in it, instead of in the 
application_controller, where it will be run before every request, not 
just those run on the desired controller.

Ciao!
gustav@rails.co.za
Gustav Paul
itsdEx.com

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