Adding pretty URIs to your blog

Samstag, 16. April 2011, 13:18 Uhr | roberto@vasquez-angel.de |

To add pretty urls to your blogs posts, you can use the friendly_id gem, that can be found here.

The documentation is really good, and installing was straight:

1.Installation

Add the gem to your application. In your Rails.root/Gemfile:

gem "friendly_id", "~> 3.2.1"

Install your bundle:

$> bundle install

Run the friendly id installer:

$> rails g friendly_id

Migrate:

$> rake db:migrate

2.Adding slugs to the post model

Edit Rails.root/app/models/post.rb:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_friendly_id :title, :use_slug                    => true, 
                          :approximate_ascii           => true,
                          :ascii_approximation_options => :german # support for german umlauts

Generate the slugs for existing posts:

$> rake friendly_id:make_slugs MODEL=Post

3.Making your posts accessible through nice URIs

There is no step three :)