How to get link_to in Rails to output a friendly SEO URL?

Question

My link_to tag:

<%= link_to("My test title",{:controller=>"search", :action=>"for-sale", :id=> listing.id, :title => listing.title, :search_term => search_term}) %> 

and creates this ugly URL:

 http://mysite.com/search/for-sale/12345?title=premium+ad+%2B+photo+%5Btest%5D 

How do I get link_to to generate:

 http://mysite.com/search/for-sale/listing-title/search-term/12345 

I tried this in several different ways and can not find much online, I really appreciate any help!

Answer 1

Look at this

add this to your config / routes.rb

 map.connect ':controller/:action/:title/search_item/:id', :controller=>'search', :action=>'for_sale' 

restart the server and check. Hope that helps :)

Answer 2

You need to change the structure of the URLs in route.rb to match what you want the URL to look like, and parse the parameters accordingly in the controller arguments.