How can i hide the params in browser url?

Rails
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Hello,
How can i hide the params in browser url. I read many blogs and
suggestions.

They suggested me to use to_params friendlyid gem.

Example.

I have a user table and have multiple records with the same name.

If i fire get request using localhost:3000/users?name=abc

Then how can i make name as identification work as id. Because name can
be
same.

Thanks
Sunil

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On Jul 6, 2015, at 7:29 AM, Sunil K. [email protected] wrote:

Then how can i make name as identification work as id. Because name can be same.

Unless I’m misreading, your request is self-contradictory. If you want
to request a specific record, then the URL must identify that record
uniquely, period. (Well, you could use a POST, and that would take the
unique id out of the URL, but I don’t think that’s what you want.)
Simply put, asking “how can I make sure that /users?name=smith accesses
the correct smith without distinguishing in the URL which smith” just
doesn’t make sense.

(I suppose that if the name were unique per logged-in user, you could
use something from the session to search for smith per user, but it
doesn’t seem like that’s what you’re asking either.)

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Scott is so right as this being contradictory. You are trying to seek a
specific user where uniqueness of that user is not established.
Mathematically you need some transitional element. You simply need to
gather another identifying aspect of your user. Thereafter, you can
encrypt data ( username and other_element) served, the same way you are
likely encrypting your user password.
Liz

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On Jul 6, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Elizabeth McGurty [email protected]
wrote:

Scott is so right as this being contradictory. You are trying to seek a
specific user where uniqueness of that user is not established. Mathematically
you need some transitional element. You simply need to gather another identifying
aspect of your user. Thereafter, you can encrypt data ( username and
other_element) served, the same way you are likely encrypting your user password.
Liz

On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 9:29:07 AM UTC-4, Sunil K. wrote:
Hello,
How can i hide the params in browser url. I read many blogs and suggestions.

They suggested me to use to_params friendlyid gem.

These are both good suggestions (to_param in your model, or the
FriendlyId gem included in your model).

FriendlyId is the much more robust solution, and the readme on the
GitHub page is pretty clear about how to add it to a working
application. You’ll need a migration and a bit of configuration in your
model, and you need to change ModelName.find to ModelName.friendly.find
wherever you are using a bare find method. But once that’s done, you
should be able to use whatever attribute you like as the seed of your
“slug”, which will replace the :id segment of your URLs. users/24 will
become users/fred-rogers or whatever you can dream up.

Using to_param makes the same sort of sense, but it would require more
work on your part. Every time I set out to do that because “it’s too
much work to get FriendlyId working”, I find all sorts of edge cases
that I didn’t think through, and I end up ripping out the home-grown
thing and using FF anyway.

But if you’re curious, you can add a method in your model named
to_param, and have it return any parameter you like:

before_save :update_slug

def to_param
slug
end

private

update_slug
self.slug = "#{first_name}-#{last_name}.downcase
end

Of course, then you have to ensure that first_name-last_name is globally
unique, which it probably isn’t. FriendlyId thinks of that, and will add
serial numbers to the end of the slug to disambiguate.

And having done that, you need to change your ModelName.find methods to
ModelName.find_by!(slug: params[:id]) (don’t forget the ! after the
method, or you won’t get a 404 when the URL isn’t correct).

Walter