Named Routes and Sexy URLs

[omargallob]

hi there,

i want kaminari to use the following route :

match "/:category(/page/:page)" => "viewer#index", :as => "category_index"

instead of going to the old route

/viewer/index?category=fiction&page=2

would i have to modiify the kaminari views? cant find any posts or comments from any1 with relation to this

[joshuabowers]

Hi omargallob:

In case you have not stumbled across an answer to this elsewhere, I believe I can confirm that. I have defined in my routes file a named route something like the following:

resources :parts do
  collection do
    get 'search/:search(/page/:page)' => 'parts#index', :as => :search
  end
end

With a route like that in place, links generated with link_to will indeed transform a params hash with keys like :search and :page to a cleaner form. E.g.:

search_parts_path(:search => "foobar", :page => 2)
 => '/parts/search/foobar/page/2'

So, your example should work. You can actually get really complex with this stuff. My actual route matches the following pattern:

'(search/:search)(/sort/:sort(/:direction))(/page/:page)'

Which kaminari seems to have absolutely no issues using.

[omargallob]

Sorted it out, i had a "get" at the top of the routes.rb which was messing up the sexy urls