Working With Rails

Acts As Friendly Param

1. acts_as_friendly_param #
2. blutak’d together by chrisfarms # # #
3. Use this act if you want your models to use more descriptive :id fields in URLs
4. A model using acts_as_friendly_param may have a RESTful URL such as: #
5. /posts/4-the-day-the-earth-stood-still #
6. Its a VERY SIMPLE extension … but since I keep writing it I thought
7. it should be pluginified #
8. thanks to Mephisto for the iconv character translation code
9. and thanks to Obie Fernandez for blogging about overiding #to_param # # # # #
10. Note about strict URLs #
11. if you have to do any SEO work you will find that many search
12. engines will penalize you for having multiple URLs pointing to the same
13. page/resource. #
14. for this reason acts_as_friendly_param raises a ActiveRecord::RecordMoved
15. if the ID in the url matches but the text string doesn’t #
16. this should give you a chance to catch the error and perform a 301 HTTP
17. redirect to the correct resource.
19. if you do not want this feature disable it like so: #
20. acts_as_friendly_param :name, :strict => false # #

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