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.
Questions tagged [friendly-id]
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Hiding a resource name in FriendlyID slug
I'm using FriendlyID to produce slugs for some of my models.
To use the example provided in the FriendlyID docs ( http://rubydoc.info/github/norman/friendly_id/master/frames ), my URLs currently look like…
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friendly_id, Seeding database, Undefined method 'friendly_id'
In a Rails 3 app, I am trying to write seeds (in db/seeds.rb) for a model that uses friendly_id:
# /db/seeds.rb
Page.create(:title => "Default page", :content => "Default content of the default page")
When I run rake db:seed the task fails. Below…
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Why does friendly_id default to two dashes?
Curious as to why friendly_id encourage 2 dashes, instead of one?
Am interested why this is the default logic. Any reason why they chose two dashes, instead of one?
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newbie: issues with updating / redirect profile and friendly_id
Trying to rewrite my profile controller wich is broken at this point. Im using friendly_id to have urls like below with partials edit_basics.haml, edit_details.haml, etc.
/users/me/edit/basics
/users/me/edit/interests
/users/me/edit/details
The…
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Friendly_id not working, redirects to Category with wrong index
I've followed Ryan Bates' screencast in order to get friendly_id set up (up until the def should_generate_new_friendly_id? part) for my Category model. One of the Categories is books, but for some reason /categories/books redirects to a blank page,…
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friendly_id on profile using a param from user model?
Im following the casts http://railscasts.com/episodes/314-pretty-urls-with-friendlyid?autoplay=true on friendly_id
Having a user model with field "login"
And a profile model with a "user_id" that belongs to user
How could I setup friendly_id so…
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How do I move example.com/profiles/1 to example.com/username with friendly_id with username from user model?
I have red docs on friendly_id for rails. It's easy: you set a certain attribute to be the slug.
example.com/username
User has_one profile
Profile belongs_to User
So you see my dilemma. I have no column username in the profile model. How can I link…
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How do i solve friendly id issue in active admin
I am using Rails 7 Active admin
I have Project that is Workshop Project that is related to organizing workshops, booking them etc.
I am using Friendly ID Gem . The url looks like http://127.0.0.1:3000/workshops/ai-the-new-era
using friendly id. Now…
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Redirect to the canonical slugs using FriendlyId gem while using CanCan gem
Let's say you have a model Speaker that utilizes FiendlyId gem to create unique slugs like this:
class Speaker < ApplicationRecord
friendly_id :name, use: %i[slugged history finders]
end
And you are using CanCanCan gem to implement authorization…
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Rails Undefined method `friendly_id' using friendly_id gem
I've looked at similar posts on SO and YouTube videos, but can't seem to figure out why I'm getting this error for a blog site:
undefined method `friendly_id' for BlogPost:Class
Ideally, my URL should be: www.mysite.com/blog-title-here
blog_post.rb…
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Why is my custom slug method skipping it's code?
I am trying to perform the following actions to alter my urls:
parse instances of "an-" from my url
remove a prefix of "the-" from my url if present.
class BlogPost < ApplicationRecord
extend FriendlyId
friendly_id :custom_slug, use:…
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How to add the name of a blog post's category to route url with Rails 7
I have been trying to add the name of the BlogCategory that a BlogPost belongs to in a URL such as this:
sitename.com/blog/category-name/blog-post-title
At the very least, I want this to render for the show of the BlogPost but am okay with it being…
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Rails: Use strings like "1", "1.2", "1.2.1", and "1.2.1a" as ID values of a model
I have a tree-like structure of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) with my model wcag_elements.
class WcagElement < ApplicationRecord
acts_as_tree order: :position
def to_param
"#{id}-#{name.parameterize}"
end
end
The tree…
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ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound Issue in Rails
I see the above issue while accessing active admin show page for model "campaign". This might be due to friendly_id gem, but I'm unable to identify what exactly the issue is.
My campaign.rb file looks like following:
class Campaign <…
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Translate friendly_id
Using:
Rails: 3.0.3
Friendly_id: 3.2.1
I am building a website with (currently) two locales, :se & :en where I am using friendly_id to get SEO-friendly url.
Currently, it works fine but I am trying to get it to work with locales and end up in dead…
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