jcasimir

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.

clemens

require 'fileutils'

# force the whole app to use its own tmpdir
FileUtils.mkdir_p(Rails.root.join('tmp'))
ENV['TMPDIR'] = Rails.root.join('tmp')

hchbaw

#autoload +X

__git_files () {
  local expl

  _wanted files expl 'file' _files
}