Rails Friendly id Fullstops

Question

I am using Friendly id to allow custom queries, from the username, in my Rails app.

So say the User's username is loremipsum

rails would display this http://localhost:3000/users/loremipsum, and this works perfectly fine

but say the User's username is lorem.ipsum or lorem-ipsum

How could I make rails display, lorem.ipsum or lorem-ipsum in the url, because it currently takes the first part, and then says Couldn't find User with id=lorem

My Users controller

    class UsersController < ApplicationController


  def index

    @users = User.all


    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @movies }
    end
  end

    def search

    @movies = @search.result

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @movies }
    end
  end
  def show

    @user = User.find(params[:id])

    @movies = @search.result

  end

  def sign_up
    @user = User.new

  end

  def sign_in

  end
  def create

    @user = User.create( params[:user] )
    if @user.save
      sign_in @user
      flash[:success] = "Welcome to the Sample App!"
      redirect_to @user
    else
      render 'new'
    end
  end

def edit

  @user = @current_user
end

  def update


    if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
      sign_in @user
      flash[:success] = "Profile updated"
      redirect_to @user
    else
      render 'edit'
    end
  end



  def destroy

    User.find(params[:id]).destroy
    flash[:success] = "User destroyed"
    redirect_to users_path
  end


  def edit 

  end 

end

rails_id · Answer 1 · 2013-06-02T18:53:03.877

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Using slug for handle it, you should be able to define this on the model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :username, use: :slugged

  def normalize_friendly_id(string)
    super.upcase.gsub("-", ".")
   end
end

reference : customizing friendly_id slugs

Change User.find to User.friendly.find in your controller

User.friendly.find(params[:id])

Quick Start Using Friendly_id

edited Jun 02 '13 at 18:53

answered Jun 02 '13 at 02:42

rails_id

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Have you attribute slug (slug:string) on your user model? – rails_id Jun 02 '13 at 16:49
Yes i have rails g migration add_slug_to_users slug:string – PMP Jun 02 '13 at 17:10
Ok sure, Added it to the question – PMP Jun 02 '13 at 18:31
Now i get this undefined method `friendly' for # – PMP Jun 02 '13 at 18:58
Have you `gem "friendly_id", "~> 5.0.0"` on your `gemfile`? – rails_id Jun 02 '13 at 19:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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This is more likely a routing issue as rails is passing through lorem as params[:id] and ipsum as format.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7781314/308701 explains how to disable this, however the caveat is that you won't be able to request other formats such as xml, json etc ...

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Dec 17 '13 at 23:16

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