@@ -123,6 +123,35 @@ only for languages that use some variant of the Roman alphabet. You must install the "unicode" and "iconv" to use this feature. +h3. This is all too complicated. Why not just override to_param to return the +id followed by a dasherized string? + +This creates URL's like the following: + + http://www.example.org/profiles/12-joe + +Which works great. But at times you may prefer not having the id in the URL. + + http://www.example.org/profiles/joe + +Note that if you are using the to_param trick for URL's, you should check to +make sure your URL's are being accessed with the most up-to-date slug, because +the following two URL's will point to the same content: + + http://www.example.org/posts/12-i-love-friend-id + http://www.example.org/profiles/12-friendly-id-sucks + +In these cases it's convenient to have a before_filter in your controller +that does something like this: + + def ensure_current_url + if request.headers['REQUEST_URI'] != post_path(@post) + redirect_to @post, :status => :moved_permanently + end + end + + + h2. Getting it Git repository: git://github.com/norman/friendly_id.git @@ -156,33 +185,6 @@ The default is to remove dead slugs older than 45 days, but is configurable: rake:friendly_id:remove_old_slugs MODEL=MyModelName DAYS=60 -h2. This is all too complicated. Why not just override to_param to return the -id followed by a dasherized string? - -This create URL's like the following: - - http://www.example.org/profiles/12-joe - -Which works great. But at times you may prefer not having the id in the URL. - - http://www.example.org/profiles/joe - -Note that if you are using the to_param trick for URL's, you should check to -make sure your URL's are being accessed with the most up-to-date slug, because -the following two URL's will point to the same content: - - http://www.example.org/posts/12-i-love-friend-id - http://www.example.org/profiles/12-friendly-id-sucks - -In these cases it's convenient to have a before_filter in your controller -that does something like this: - - def ensure_current_url - if request.headers['REQUEST_URI'] != post_path(@post) - redirect_to @post, :status => :moved_permanently - end - end - h2. Bugs: Please report them on "Lighthouse":http://randomba.lighthouseapp.com/projects/14675-friendly_id. README.textile 869da046279a5916223cd0be2873de1bfb56e594 Norman Clarke norman@randomba.org http://github.com/norman/friendly_id/commit/89601d10ba528cdbae18688affe0314dfe0e5381 89601d10ba528cdbae18688affe0314dfe0e5381 2008-10-22T09:36:41-07:00 2008-10-22T09:36:41-07:00 More README tweaking. bcb5877f72433d2d233dede0d25326f9c12e73ab Norman Clarke norman@randomba.org