Ruby on rails to_param with multiple fields for SEO

Question

I am trying to make my urls prettier and still use restful resources. I understand that you can override the to_param method if you object has a name property like this:

def to_param
  self.name
end

which will give you the route /:model/:name. This is all straightforward, but I have to be capable of having the same name with multiple different languages. I haven't been able to find a blog entry on how to do this, so how can i override the to_param method to provide me a route similar to /:model/:language/:name ?

Answer 1

You could always do:

/language/:language/model/:name

You'd do this with nested routes:

map.resources :languages do |l|
  l.resources :profiles
end

Then your route would be:

langauge_profile_url('spanish', @profile)

However...

Depending on what you're trying to do you might be better of using the built in rails i18n stuff. Is this so users can browse the site in different languages??