Rails: multiple names for a resource

Question

Is there an elegant way of having multiple names for a single resource. We would like to give the user a choice via a setting of what they would like to call their "things". I.e. products, items, services whatever.

So far I can only think of using multiple routes to a single controller:

resources :products
resources :items, :controller => :products
resources :services, :controller => :products

The only thing I can see is the views will become quite complex having to ask which URL to generate based on the users setting.

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Not sure exactly what you you're trying to do but Rails can do all of the heavy lifting for URL generation through the url_for helper. See here