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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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Rails: Programatically caching friendly urls on facebook when using friendly_id gem

I have a view page which has an embedded youtube video on it. I have the proper OG tags so that the video is embedded on facebook when shared. But in order for above to work, I need to programatically hit the Facebook debugger endpoint so that my…
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friendlyId won't work correctly

Im trying to apply friendlyId gem onto my rails app. When I have done 1 : installing gem, 2 : and this bin/rails g friendly_id create db/migrate/20150220082838_create_friendly_id_slugs.rb create config/initializers/friendly_id.rb bin/rake…
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Not any effect on friendly_id for friendly url

I use gem 'friendly_id', '~> 5.1.0' but not any effect on my id. this is my work: model: extend FriendlyId friendly_id :company_name, use: :slugged Controller: @company = Company.friendly_id.find(params[:company_id]) View: <%=…
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Confusion in friendly_id instructions

the application has installed per gemfile.lock friendly_id (5.1.0) friendly_id-globalize (1.0.0.alpha2) the base gem page states "As of version 5.0, Finders are no longer overridden by default. If you want to do friendly finds, you must do…
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How to stop friendly id from generating a numeric sequence to differentiate conflicting slug?

Say I have a uniqueness constraint on name inside its has_many association. This would mean I don't need the ugly numeric sequence added to conflicting slugs. As an example 2 slugs might get the same name in a game db from 2 different people having…
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Avoid slugging Certain Views with Friendly_ID

When using friendly_id, views that don't necessarily need to show the user's screen name are being displayed. For example. 127.0.0.1:3000/users/info.todacken333 How can I avoid showing the username on views like settings or edit…
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How to configure sequence separator with underscore `_` of friendly_id gem

I am using the friendly_id gem version 3.3.3.0 in Rails 3.2 I have defined friendly id like following :- class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_friendly_id :name, use: :slugged, sequence_separator: '_', max_length: 32 end I have used sequence…
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URL finding by email address not working with FriendlyId

I have the friendly_id gem installed (version 5.1.0) and have implemented the steps in the documentation to extend my model, add the slug field to the table, etc. This url works as expected: http://localhost:3000/owners/1 I'm trying to find by…
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Creating a Rails Migration to add a Friendly_id column (which is null) to a table with data

I have a table with data and I would like to add friendly_id. I don't know how to build my migration as I can't create a table with :null=>false when there's data in it. What I would like to do, was for the migration to run the FriendlyId so it…
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How to make pretty url's with scopes using friendly_id?

I'm building a blog and I want my categories to have beautiful URL's like blog/music, blog/art, etc. So far, I've managed to make them look like this /blog?category=music class Article < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category extend…
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No slug being added with friendly id rails

When i create a new category_item_key in the db the slug isn't being added to the slug column. here is my coding migration file class AddSlugToCategoryItemKeys < ActiveRecord::Migration def change add_column :category_item_keys, :slug,…
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Use Numeric Sequence for Duplicate Slugs [Friendly ID]

I noticed on the docs it says: Previous versions of FriendlyId appended a numeric sequence to make slugs unique, but this was removed to simplify using FriendlyId in concurrent code. Is there any way to revert back to this format? My model only has…
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Rails FriendlyId for friendly url for category and subcategory

In Rails4 is it possible to have FriendlyId build out the complete url including categories and subcategories? Example: sitename/categories/6/subcategories/36/12 should be: sitename/community/events/garage-sale-in-fresno Community is the category,…
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Rails & FriendlyID gem: how to redirect resource path to new friendly URL

I'm using the friendlyID rails gem which is working great at generating a new friendly url slug. My issue is that users can still access the original resource path: mydomain.com/movies/2 How would I redirect the original resource path to the new…
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How can I make a custom path for a model?

I'm using FriendlyID to make my URLs look nice, so what I got now is: /items/my-personal-item But what I would like is: /user1/my-personal-item Where user1 is the username of a user owning my-personal-item.
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