any way to make Rails + this gem create hyphenated urls, especially for static pages such as /blue_socks to become /blue-socks

[jpwynn]

Does this gem (or gem in combination with some other technique) facilitate replacing Rails' hardwired "underscore" paths and urls with the more SEO-friendly "hyphenated" paths and urls.

Specifically is there any way given a controller method def blue_socks .... to have the auto-magic rails routes and paths and urls be in the form blue-socks (which Google will understand as "blue socks" instead of blue_socks (which to Google is just a non-word)?

Having installed this gem to play with it, it's nice on one hand to have an easy way to add a canonical to the layout, but the real SEO issue for Rails apps, it seems to me, is undoing Rails' (tragically IMO) baked-in "underscore" assumption for all routes, paths, urls.

Since Google explicitly states hyphenated words is better, surely there is some way to accomplish that with Rails?

[jumph4x]

Source for others: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/url-structure

The Rails Router DSL allows for manual specification of URLs, it just makes it verbose and takes time. I recommend adding an 'except' clause to your resource definitions and manually redefining the relevant GET paths using whatever form you most prefer.

Cheers.