FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Ruby on Rails. It allows you to create pretty URL's and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for Active Record models.
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creating a custom path-helper while using FreindlyID
we're trying to get our site to have less scrapeable AND more readable urls
so e.g.
www.loomio.org/discussions/3122
becomes
www.loomio.org/d/3saA4ds9/lets-go-to-the-moon
we only really want the human-readable slug on show-links, so…
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undefined method `friendly' for #
I recently installed friendly_id 5 on my Rails 4 app. I've followed the quick start guide, and setup a model like this:
class Official::Master < Official
extend FriendlyId
friendly_id :name, use: [:slugged, :history]
end
When I try to save an…
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How can I use slug candidates with frienldy_id and simple_i18n
In a Rails4 app, I use friendly_id 5.0.1 with the plugin simple_i18n with two locales en and de.
In my model, I have name_de, name_en and title_de, title_en (and of cause slug_de, slug_en).
When saving the model, I used to set both slugs in a…
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Friendly_id-globalize 'find() through' association isn't using translation table
In Rails 4:
Using find() directly on my model generates a query which looks up the slug in the page_translations table:
Page.find('my-title')
SELECT FROM "pages" LEFT OUTER JOIN "page_translations" ...
-> #
When I use find through a…
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How to use a friendly id only in one namespace
I'm using the gem friendly_id in rails 4 to make nice urls for my user's product listings. It works by overriding the to_param. Now it is working wonderfully in the Shop namespace which is the public facing part of my site however in the Admin…
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ERROR: Error installing friendly_id: activesupport requires Ruby version >= 1.9.3. with Rails2.3.3 and Ruby 1.8.7
When I try to install friendly_id :version => "~> 3.0.6" with rails 2.3.3 wtih ruby 1.8.7 getting error for Ruby version
ERROR: Error installing friendly_id: activesupport requires Ruby version >= 1.9.3.
Current version of Rails is 2.3.3 and Ruby…
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generate slug url using rails 4
Based on this tutorial, I've created a slug url but when I click show or add post it showing error as :
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
Couldn't find Post with id=testing-seo-url
Instead of taking slug it is taking as id. where I have to make changes…
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friendly_id gem with rails, converting to SEO friendly urls
I'm using friendly_id and rails 3.2. I'm trying to convert a products table to have clean urls. I'm having no issues using the new slug column, and urls are generating fine like
example.com/products/new-friendly-url
The problem I am running…
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Monkey patching a Gem method in Rails 3
I'm willing to use friendly_id gem with Firebird, but I need to override a method that implements a specific SQL function with code related to Firebird.
I've created the file config/initializers/friendly_id_monkey_patch.rb containing the following…
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friendly_id gem using associated model fields
What should we do if we have to generate slug for a model when its associated records are updated. For example I am using models User and UserProfile and the slug is user.user_profile.name. When a new user is created the associated user_profile is…
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Rails: FriendlyId gem not working
I was trying to install gem FriendlyId. I am following railscast: 314-pretty-urls-with-friendlyid. It seems pretty easy to install. But not working for me.
Here are the steps I did:
added gem "friendly_id", "~> 4.0.9" in Gemfile
I then ran bundle…
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Change Friendly_ID Sequence Number Rails
Out of the box, Friendly_ID adds "--2", "--3"... to the end of the slug when an similar entry exists.
I see where I can change the "sequence_separator" but am having having trouble finding what I would call the "sequencer." My posts will only…
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friendly_id: Renew slugs optionally
I want to allow users to
renew
the slug of an entry by clicking a checkbox.
I know the function
should_generate_new_friendly_id?
, but not how to use it in this case since it is defined in the model and cannot read params attributes.
Thanks for any…
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Problems with FriendlyId and parameters
I am trying to change my urls from whatever.com/users/1 to whatever.com/users/jamie.Surname or whatever.com/users/jamie-Surname
I would quite like to eventually change to whatever.com/jamie.surname or whatever.com/jamie-surname but I thought it…
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`friendly_id` doesn't allow delete
I'm using friendly_id to make my URL's more user friendly, but since implementing the gem, my destroy action just goes to the show action. I'm currently using:
= link_to 'Delete', entry_path(e), :method => :delete, :confirm => 'Really really?'
and…
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