doesn't appear to respect config.active_record.table_name_prefix

[joshdaloewen]

I've got a rails 3 app that sets config.active_record.table_name_prefix. The migration correctly creates myprefix_friendly_id_slugs, but any operations that would edit that table give errors like:

PGError: ERROR: relation "friendly_id_slugs" does not exist

Which makes me think that the table name is hard-coded. Is there a friendly_id config that allows us to change the table name?

[joshdaloewen]

Well, I poked around the friendly_id code and answered my own question. Although friendly_id doesn't automatically respect the table prefix, it's easy enough to configure the new table name in the environment config file.

in /environments/production.rb

config.active_record.table_name_prefix = 'myprefix_'
FriendlyId::Slug.table_name = 'myprefix_friendly_id_slugs'

[norman]

Thanks for reporting this. I would definitely consider this a bug, and worth fixing.

[joshdaloewen]

Cool. If I knew more about gits and forks and pushes and pulls I'd try fixing it myself...but I'm a bit of a noob

[dpmccabe]

In case anyone else is having this problem, you need only set FriendlyId::Slug.table_name = 'whatever_friendly_id_slugs' in an initializer somewhere. I'm using FriendlyId in a gem with namespaced models, so I had to prefix the table name with the name of my gem.