There's really no magic to it: since the Page id parameter is coming in the form of "123-page-title-goes-here", Rails just calls #to_i on anything that comes into ActiveRecord#find, so that parameter just gets turned into "123".
Actually, this should probably be updated to use friendly_id, the way User does (see: https://github.com/bborn/communityengine/blob/master/app/models/user.rb#L13). This would allow you to use custom slugs, as you're describing. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Dan Coutu <co...@snowy-owl.com> wrote: > I see that the page model seems to have the ability to find a page by > either id or a slug that's made up of a combination of id and parameterized > title. However the page model provides no method for this extension of the > find method and I haven't found any gem or plugin that seems to handle it > either. > > The reason that this is important to me is that I want to be able to use a > type of slug that doesn't rely on either the id or the title so that I can > readily create links to static pages based on a slug value that won't > change even if the page title or id does change. (The id would change if > the original page was deleted and a new one created, or if the slug on the > original was removed and assigned to a different page.) Examples of such > pages are: About Us, Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions. > > What I'm really asking here is if anyone knows how to override the find > method for pages so that it supports both the current lookup as well as my > own slug lookup. I'm a bit reluctant to just declare an override in my > local page model without first seeing what the current code looks like, so > that I don't make a mess of things. > > Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CommunityEngine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to communityengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to communityengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to communityengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to communityengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
