Module: FriendlyId::History

Defined in:
lib/friendly_id/history.rb

Overview

History: Avoiding 404's When Slugs Change

FriendlyId's History module adds the ability to store a log of a model's slugs, so that when its friendly id changes, it's still possible to perform finds by the old id.

The primary use case for this is avoiding broken URLs.

Setup

In order to use this module, you must add a table to your database schema to store the slug records. FriendlyId provides a generator for this purpose:

rails generate friendly_id
rake db:migrate

This will add a table named friendly_id_slugs, used by the Slug model.

Considerations

Because recording slug history requires creating additional database records, this module has an impact on the performance of the associated model's create method.

Example

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :title, :use => :history
end

class PostsController < ApplicationController

  before_filter :find_post

  ...

  def find_post
    @post = Post.friendly.find params[:id]

    # If an old id or a numeric id was used to find the record, then
    # the request slug will not match the current slug, and we should do
    # a 301 redirect to the new path
    if params[:id] != @post.slug
      return redirect_to @post, :status => :moved_permanently
    end
  end
end

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Configuration, FinderMethods

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(model_class) ⇒ Object

Configures the model instance to use the History add-on.



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# File 'lib/friendly_id/history.rb', line 72

def self.included(model_class)
  model_class.class_eval do
    has_many :slugs, -> { order(id: :desc) }, **{
      as: :sluggable,
      dependent: @friendly_id_config.dependent_value,
      class_name: Slug.to_s
    }

    after_save :create_slug
  end
end

.setup(model_class) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/friendly_id/history.rb', line 62

def self.setup(model_class)
  model_class.instance_eval do
    friendly_id_config.use :slugged
    friendly_id_config.class.send :include, History::Configuration
    friendly_id_config.finder_methods = FriendlyId::History::FinderMethods
    FriendlyId::Finders.setup(model_class) if friendly_id_config.uses? :finders
  end
end