friendly_id scope unique to parent resource

Question

Is it possible to scope the slug to the parent resource so that two users can share the same resource slug? example:

two users would have news articles "i-am-awesome"

domain/joe/news/i-am-awesome domain/sara/news/i-am-awesome

I've made a custom validation for the slug for uniquiness on user's resource, but this still ends up generating a UUID for the second user. ends up being:

domain/sara/news/i-am-awesome-UUID

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '15 at 21:43

Might be too late to help, but yes, you can scope friendly_id. From the documentation:

class Restaurant < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  belongs_to :city
  friendly_id :name, :use => :scoped, :scope => :city
end

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  has_many :restaurants
  friendly_id :name, :use => :slugged
end

City.friendly.find("seattle").restaurants.friendly.find("joes-diner")
City.friendly.find("chicago").restaurants.friendly.find("joes-diner")

friendly_id scope unique to parent resource

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