how do I make the URL's in Ruby on Rails SEO friendly knowing a @vendor.name?

Question

My application is in RoR

I have an action/view called showsummary where the ID has been passed into the URL, and the controller has used that to instantiate @vendor wher

Answer 1

I thought I'd mention String#parameterize, as a supplement to the tagged answer.

def to_param
  "#{id}-#{name.parameterize}"
end

It'll filter out hyphenated characters, replace spaces with dashes etc.