Username Routing in Rails

Question

I am trying make a project in which /username gets redirected to that username's profile. How can I make this happen?

Answer 1

The route would be: "get /:username", to: "users#profile"

You would change users#profile to whatever your controller action is called.

You need to make sure to put this at the end of your routes. Otherwise it will intercept all your routes.

For example, don't do the following:

get "/:username", to: "users#profile"
get "/foo", to: "pages#bar"

Because you will never be able to reach the pages#bar endpoint.