How to: friendly join urls

By default BigbluebuttonRails generates routes scoped with the word bigbluebutton. Therefore, the routes to join a conference will in the likes of /bigbluebutton/rooms/my-room/join and /bigbluebutton/rooms/my-room/invite.

These are not very friendly URLs, tough. You might want your users to have an easy-to-remember URL for their conference room. Do to so, you can add the following block to your config/routes.rb:

match '/conf/:id', :to => 'bigbluebutton/rooms#invite', :as => "join_webconf"

This will create routes such as /conf/my-room. If you combine this with attributing the name of the rooms to a user ID, you can have routes such as /conf/rick-astley. This example will also create the helper join_webconf_path that returns the path to this URL.

Notice that the route points to the action invite instead of join. Doing so allows this URL to be shared with people that don't have an account on your website.