On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 9:06:22 AM UTC-5, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > > On Jan 25, 2019, at 6:00 AM, fugee ohu <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > I wanna convert my news stories to use slug urls based on the :headline > column instead of id's but some of the rows contain special characters like > double quotes, exclamation points, do I need to gsub those out > > An interesting theory, but FriendlyId already does this, quite > elaborately. The logic that does the "dumbification" is delegated to > ActiveSupport's parameterize method, which takes everything not-ASCII and > transliterates it into ASCII, and replaces any run of whitespace with a > single dash, and removes punctuation. Next, the slug is checked for > duplicates with any existing record, and a UUID is appended if so. It's > really quite well done and very settled code. I have been using FriendlyId > for 8 years or more without encountering any error that wasn't my own > mistake. > > In another of your many threads, you mention that you are trying to create > a slug out of the article's text, rather than the headline (as the > documentation encourages). You may want to try starting from a truncated > copy of the article text (or even following the directions) before you > assume that FriendlyId is at fault here. I doubt that your article text > will fit into the size constraints of a URL segment, particularly if you > worry about IE users seeing the thing at all*' > > Walter > > *The entire URL, including prefix, host, port, and path, must be no more > than 1,024 characters ASCII in order to be visited by IE. > > So I have to change the length of the varchar field and the length of the index as well?
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