How to remove model name from URL with friendly_id in ruby on rails

Question

I have a question model which allows users to add questions.

I have set up Friendly_id so now that when a user adds a question the url is:

http://localhost:3000/questions/this-is-a-question

However, i want the url to appear like this

http://localhost:3000/this-is-a-question

Do you have any ideas on how i can do this with friendly_id?

Thanks

UPDATE:

This is my friendly_id bit in question.rb

extend FriendlyId
friendly_id :title, use: [:slugged, :finders]

def slug_candidates
[
  :title,
  [:title, :id]
]
end

def should_generate_new_friendly_id?
    new_record?
end 

end

Answer 1

in routes.rb

resources :questions, path: ''

throws errors when you are logged out.

try:

get '/:friendly_id', to: 'questions#show' 

Answer 2

Try this in routes.rb

resources :questions, path: ''

Answer 3

In routes.rb

resources :questions, except: :show # Remove others you don't want

get ':id', to: 'questions#show', as: 'question'

Please make sure that you use friendly_id's reserved words if you are using a root level id. Also, make sure that you keep the get ':id', to: 'questions#show', as: 'question' line at the bottom of your routes.rb so that everything else is prioritized above it. It's a dangerous route.

Answer 4

What you want in your routes.rb is something similar to below:

get '/:id', to: 'posts#show', constraints: { id: /\d.+/ }
get '/:username', to: 'users#show'

copied from the routing documentation http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html

in your case if the question name is called friendly_id, then what you want is:

get '/:friendly_id', to: 'questions#show'

and in your controller show method you would be using param[:friendly_id]