Rails4 Friendly_id Unique Slug Formatting

Question

I am using friendly_id gem for slugging my models. Since the slug has to be unique when i enter the same data to check i get a long hashed appending in the slug.

Answer 1

I would recommend using the :scoped module if you want to avoid UUIDs in your slugs when dealing with collisions. Here's the documentation along with an example:

http://norman.github.io/friendly_id/file.Guide.html#Unique_Slugs_by_Scope

Try using :scope => :id since each id will be unique anyway and see if that works for you.

UPDATE:

To get exactly what you want, you now have candidates for that purpose in version 5:

class YourModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :slug_candidates, use: :slugged

  # Try building a slug based on the following fields in
  # increasing order of specificity.
  def slug_candidates
    [
      :name,
      [:name, :id],
    ]
  end
end