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Friendly URLs

By default, Rails applications build URLs based on the primary key -- the id column from the database. Imagine we have a Person model and associated controller. We have a person record for Bob Martin that has id number 6. The URL for his show page would be:

/people/6

But, for aesthetic or SEO purposes, we want Bob's name in the URL. The last segment, the 6 here, is called the "slug". Let's look at a few ways to implement better slugs.

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

	#
	# Initialize the stuff
	#
	# We build the status bar item menu
	def setupMenu
	menu = NSMenu.new
	menu.initWithTitle 'FooApp'
	mi = NSMenuItem.new
	mi.title = 'Hellow from MacRuby!'
	mi.action = 'sayHello:'

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'sinatra'
	require 'pony'
	require 'haml'

	set :haml, {:format => :html5}
	set :public, File.dirname(__FILE__)
	set :views, File.dirname(__FILE__)

	# Create the page class and give it a title of Contact for the layout

	/**
	* Simple outbound message launcher in Node.js
	*
	* You will need to have a Tropo scripting aplication set up
	* to use this. See sample code below:
	*
	* message(msg, { to:number, network:"SMS" });
	*
	* Save this file in your Tropo account as message.js
	*

	# ignore the "bit" stuff.. only relevant to my custom jekyll fork

	desc 'create new post or bit. args: type (post, bit), title, future (# of days)'
	# rake new type=(bit\|post) future=0 title="New post title goes here" slug="slug-override-title"
	task :new do
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'chronic'

	type = ENV["type"] \|\| "bit"
	title = ENV["title"] \|\| "New Title"

	var Gscrape = function(domain) {
	var domain = domain \|\| 'com',
	searchURL = 'http://www.google.' + domain + '/search?q=',
	searchInProgress = false,
	cache = {
	error: '',
	success: true,
	pages: 0,
	urls: {}
	};

	#!/bin/bash

	OPENSSL_VERSION="1.0.1g"

	curl -O http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-$OPENSSL_VERSION.tar.gz
	tar -xvzf openssl-$OPENSSL_VERSION.tar.gz
	mv openssl-$OPENSSL_VERSION openssl_i386
	tar -xvzf openssl-$OPENSSL_VERSION.tar.gz
	mv openssl-$OPENSSL_VERSION openssl_x86_64
	cd openssl_i386

	echo "deb http://emdebian.org/debian/ lenny main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
	apt-get update
	apt-get install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi libc6-dev-armel-cross

	cd /path/to/ruby/1.8.7/sources
	autoconf
	CFLAGS="--static" LDFLAGS="--static" CC="arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc" ac_cv_func_setpgrp_void=yes ac_cv_func_isinf=no ac_cv_func_isnan=no ac_cv_func_finite=no CROSS_COMPILING=1 ./configure --host="arm-linux-gnueabi" --prefix=/mnt/us/opt
	make
	make install

	-------------------------------
	The code for the contact form
	-------------------------------

	<div id='contact-box' class="group">
	<div class="span6 clear">
	<form action="/" method="post" class="well">
	<label for="name">Your Name:</label>
	<input type="text" name="name" class="span4" placeholder="John Smith...">
	<label for="email">Your email address:</label>