How to get actual post.id while using friendly_id

Question

I currently have my post model using friendly_id to replace Post.id with Post.pid: friendly_id :pid, :use => :scoped, :scope => :id

How can I get the actual id of a post instead of the slug so that when a reply saves it saves Post.id and not Post.slug to Reply.post_id.

I need to do this because replies are appearing to posts created on other boards due to post.pid not being unique

class RepliesController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @board = Board.friendly.find(params[:board_id])
    @post = Post.friendly.find(params[:post_id])
    @reply = @post.replies.create(reply_params)
    @post.touch
    redirect_to @board
  end
  private
    def reply_params
      params.require(:reply).permit(:name, :email, :subject, :comment, :reply_file)
    end
end

Unrelated to your question: you can add `touch: true` to your `Post.belongs_to :board` association and save a line of code in your controller. — BM5k, May 11 '16 at 05:49

BM5k · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-11T06:19:19.177

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Try scoping your Post.find by the board:

@post = @board.posts.friendly.find params[:post_id]

edited May 11 '16 at 06:19

answered May 11 '16 at 05:50

BM5k

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I get the error undefined method `posts', but it works with @board.posts. – indus May 11 '16 at 06:16
Yeah, I got a little carried away. Fixed. – BM5k May 11 '16 at 06:19

How to get actual post.id while using friendly_id

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