How to change URL in Rails

Question

I have a resource called Book, then I have domains like:

   domain.com/books/272

But I want to change it to

   domain.com/stories/272

Only for the URL, don't need to change controller, classes etc.

In the routes I have

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

  map.root :controller => 'static'

How can I do it? Thanks

Answer 1

In rails 3, I believe you would do the following:

resources :books, :path => 'stories'

Answer 2

Depends really on what you have already.

Use this code to your routes file: (in the case of the original URL of books replaced by stories)

#resource routes
map.resources :books, :as => :stories
#named routes
map.books 'stories/:id'

Without defining routes the only option I can think of - which seems terribly wrong - is to add a new controller which inherits from your books controller. You'd need to go through your application and change the controller name used to generate paths or URLs as seen in the following example:

class BooksController < ApplicationController

class StoriesController < BooksController

Personally, I would recommend you take the time to define your routes but I guess this depends on how large an application you're working with.

This guide will help you understand routing in RoR: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html