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Wyatt Greene  
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From: Wyatt Greene <techifer...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:41:56 -0400
Local: Wed, Jun 27 2012 9:41 am
Subject: Re: [boston.rb] enough theory, let's fix some bugs!
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If I want SEO-friendly URLs, I use https://github.com/norman/friendly_id

On Jun 27, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Denis Haskin wrote:

> Bingo!  user.rb has

>   def to_param
>     login
>   end

> removing that makes it work.  I had started to suspect that, as I was just starting to work around by hard-coding "/users/#{current_user.to_param}/orders" (oh the horror, but I didn't want to stay stuck on this forever).

> I'm not sure I understand why that broke things.  Can someone explain? (I know, I should work it out myself but I can't get to that until this evening and I'm impatient ;-) ).

> Also, what is the current school of thought?  People used to want to use to_param to make "SEO-friendly" URLs; I remember it causing me a lot of grief several years ago.

> Thanks!

> --
> Denis Haskin
> cell: 781-258-7414

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Daniel Choi <dhc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 07:41 AM, Denis Haskin <de...@constantorbit.com> wrote:

> > and so I have the expected named route user_orders_path(@user).  It works
> > just fine if the user has orders, but if the user has no orders, trying to
> > render the route gives the following error:

> >     ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches
> > {:controller=>"orders",
> >     :user_id=>#<User id: 472, account_id: nil, first_name: "Denis",
> > last_name:
> >     "Haskin", ...etc... , last_sign_in_ip: "127.0.0.1">})

> In rails c, what does `User.find(472).to_param` return?

> You can also test if the routes are being drawn correctly in `rails c`

> In rails c:

>  u = User.find(472)  # <= user with no orders
>  app.user_orders_path(u)
>  # see what you get
>  u.to_param
>  # see what you get

>  # repeat above with a user that doesn't trigger this bug

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