Rails Permalinks & Slugs

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1. friendly_id

FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.
Last commit: 2 days ago

On the web

GitHub: norman/friendly_id

Home: norman.github.com/friendly_id

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/norman/friendly_id

As a Ruby Gem

Rubyforge: friendly_id (Current version: 2.3.3)

gem install friendly_id

GitHub: norman-friendly_id (Current version: 2.1.4)

gem install norman-friendly_id --source "http://gems.github.com"

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2. permalink_fu

ActiveRecord plugin for automatically converting fields to permalinks.
Last commit: 5 months ago

On the web

GitHub: technoweenie/permalink_fu

Home: github.com/kabuki/permalink_fu

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/technoweenie/permalink_fu

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3. stringex

Some [hopefully] useful extensions to Ruby’s String class. It is made up of three libraries: ActsAsUrl [permalink solution with better character translation], Unidecoder [Unicode to Ascii transliteration], and StringExtensions [miscellaneous helper methods for the String class].
Last commit: 5 months ago

On the web

GitHub: rsl/stringex

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/rsl/stringex

As a Ruby Gem

Rubyforge: stringex (Current version: 1.1.1)

gem install stringex

GitHub: rsl-stringex (Current version: 1.0.3)

gem install rsl-stringex --source "http://gems.github.com"

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4. find_by_param

Find_by_param is a nice and easy way to handle permalinks and dealing with searching for to_param values
Last commit: 2 months ago

On the web

GitHub: bumi/find_by_param

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/bumi/find_by_param

As a Ruby Gem

Rubyforge: find_by_param (Current version: 0.1.0)

gem install find_by_param

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5. salty_slugs

Rails abstraction of word-based slugs for URLs, w/ or w/o leading numeric IDs.
Last commit: about 1 year ago

On the web

GitHub: norbauer/salty_slugs

Home: norbauer.com

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/norbauer/salty_slugs

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6. sluggable-finder

Automatically create SEO friendly, unique permalinks for your ActiveRecord objects. Behaves exactly like ActiveRecord#find
Last commit: 3 months ago

On the web

GitHub: ismasan/sluggable-finder

Home: www.estadobeta.com

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/ismasan/sluggable-finder

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7. to_slug

Rails plugin that adds a to_slug method to String instances. Slugs can be used for URLs, since all 'dangerous' characters have been filtered out.
Last commit: about 1 year ago

On the web

GitHub: ludo/to_slug

Home: cubicphuse.nl

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/ludo/to_slug

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8. has_slug

Easy permalink creation & verification for Rails >= 2.2
Last commit: 9 months ago

On the web

GitHub: Nielsomat/has_slug

Home: en.wordpress.com/tag/has_slug/

Documentation

RDoc: rdoc.info/projects/Nielsomat/has_slug

As a Ruby Gem

Rubyforge: has_slug (Current version: 0.2.6)

gem install has_slug

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