Better URL for https://wort.schule/search

[wintermeyer]

The problems with https://wort.schule/search:

• /search is an English word. It should be suche
• /suche will become a problem with friendly_id

Task

• [x] Move https://wort.schule/search to https://wort.schule/seite/suche
• [x] Add seite to forbidden slugs for friendly ID
• [x] Add migration to change existing slug seite to something else (if that exists)

[phylor]

It might be a good idea to move everything (except the friendly_id) into a namespace, as originally proposed. Such as /intern or /app. That would simplify the routes quite a bit.

Something like:

namespace :intern do
  resource :search, only: :show
  resource :page, only: :show
end

Ideally, that namespace doesn't exist in German. Could also just be a letter, such as /i or /s. We can put that into the initializer of friendly_id as config.reserved_words, so that it doesn't generate slugs for that identifier.

We have to take care with the German URLs that the code doesn't get too complex and that we don't let German vocabulary drip into the code base. That is, the Rails controller should ideally be called SearchesController and not SucheController.

[wintermeyer]

It might be a good idea to move everything (except the friendly_id) into a namespace, as originally proposed.

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Ideally, that namespace doesn't exist in German.

I disagree with that. I propose we use /seite. That is a word most can somehow understand. /intern doesn't make sense for all pages. /app is not German and we are dealing with a German audience. But in the worst case I can live with /app but I prefer /seite.

We have to take care with the German URLs that the code doesn't get too complex and that we don't let German vocabulary drip into the code base. That is, the Rails controller should ideally be called SearchesController and not SucheController.

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I am only talking about the route paths. Not about the actual code.

[wintermeyer]

Could become obsolete because of https://github.com/wort-schule/wort.schule/issues/67

[cabotine]

I think we still need the power search site, which enables you to search for everything you ever dreamed of as a German teacher.

[wintermeyer]

I think we still need the power search site

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Our current goal is an easy to use GUI. Most of our users are not power users. We have to find a way to make them happy. The current power search scares most users.

With a bit of luck and UX magic we find a solution without having to provide an extra search page. Let’s try that first. If we can’t find a good solution we’ll add an extra power search page.

[phylor]

For now, I moved everything below a scope /seite. For example, we now have /seite/search, /seite/nouns, /seite/schools, etc. The idea is that everything application related is "below" /seite/.... Only the word URLs such as /adler remain at the top level.

This issue is about renaming /search to /suche though. Do we still want to rename that?

If we do rename it, shouldn't we then also rename all other routes? For example, /seite/substantive instead of /seite/nouns.

I'm looking for consistency: I'd vote either to change all of the routes into German or none of them. Translating them into German will be a small pain technically and we can't translate all of them (Devise, ActiveStorage, etc.).

But maybe that whole discussion is obsolete because of #67.

@wintermeyer What do you think?

[wintermeyer]

This issue is about renaming /search to /suche though. Do we still want to rename that?

Yes.

If we do rename it, shouldn't we then also rename all other routes? For example, /seite/substantive instead of /seite/nouns.

Those pages are goner anyway. With the new idea of how we search those pages will not be needed any more.

But maybe that whole discussion is obsolete because of #67.

It is kind of obsolete.

I close this issue for now. We'll wait for the outcome of #67