Hi Dan, It's already incorporated into ce. Check out the user model: https://github.com/bborn/communityengine/blob/master/app/models/user.rb#L13
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Dan Coutu <co...@snowy-owl.com> wrote: > I looked further into friendly_id and it does support the ability to > specify your own rules for creating and maintaining the slugs. Given that > it also provides automated url creation that uses slugs instead of numeric > id values I'd say that this gem is a big win and really ought to be > incorporated into CE. The flexibility of friendly_id is very impressive. > > Dan > > > On Monday, March 18, 2013 11:51:11 AM UTC-4, Dan Coutu 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.
