Sometimes you give a Model a name and realize much too late that it is NOT the name you want a user to see.
Hypothetically, let’s imagine you made an app where several users were going to collectively create something like a multi-line piece of poetry, and let’s say that because it was based on a Surrealist game called Exquisite Corpse and that the body of text is a Corpus that you should give the Model the name of Corpse.
Hypothetically. Because you would never do that.
But of course I would. And after writing a decent amount of code and generating controllers and nailing down associations and building some views I realized that users may not really feel all that great about clicking on the “Make a new Corpse!” link.
Luckily, with Rails things are pretty easy.
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :styles do
resources :corpses, :path => "payams"
end
resources :lines, :except => [:update, :edit]
resources :corpses, :path => "payams" do
member do
post 'decompose'
end
end
devise_for :users, controllers: { omniauth_callbacks: 'users/omniauth_callbacks' }
resources :players do
resources :corpses, :path => "payams"
resources :lines
end
end
Everywhere I had used :corpses I added a :path => "payams" and the urls were SFW again.