Mongo ids leads to scary URLs

Question

This might sound like a trivial question, but it is rather important for consumer facing apps

What is the easiest way and most scalable way to map the scary mongo id

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the key macro has been removed from mongo. For custom ids, users must now override the _id field.

class Band
  include Mongoid::Document
  field :_id, type: String, default: ->{ name }
end