Module: FriendlyId::Scoped

Defined in:
lib/friendly_id/scoped.rb

Overview

## Unique Slugs by Scope

The Scoped module allows FriendlyId to generate unique slugs within a scope.

This allows, for example, two restaurants in different cities to have the slug ‘joes-diner`:

class Restaurant < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  belongs_to :city
  friendly_id :name, :use => :scoped, :scope => :city
end

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  has_many :restaurants
  friendly_id :name, :use => :slugged
end

City.friendly.find("seattle").restaurants.friendly.find("joes-diner")
City.friendly.find("chicago").restaurants.friendly.find("joes-diner")

Without :scoped in this case, one of the restaurants would have the slug ‘joes-diner` and the other would have `joes-diner-f9f3789a-daec-4156-af1d-fab81aa16ee5`.

The value for the ‘:scope` option can be the name of a `belongs_to` relation, or a column.

Additionally, the ‘:scope` option can receive an array of scope values:

class Cuisine < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  has_many :restaurants
  friendly_id :name, :use => :slugged
end

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  has_many :restaurants
  friendly_id :name, :use => :slugged
end

class Restaurant < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  belongs_to :city
  friendly_id :name, :use => :scoped, :scope => [:city, :cuisine]
end

All supplied values will be used to determine scope.

### Finding Records by Friendly ID

If you are using scopes your friendly ids may not be unique, so a simple find like:

Restaurant.friendly.find("joes-diner")

may return the wrong record. In these cases it’s best to query through the relation:

@city.restaurants.friendly.find("joes-diner")

Alternatively, you could pass the scope value as a query parameter:

Restaurant.where(:city_id => @city.id).friendly.find("joes-diner")

### Finding All Records That Match a Scoped ID

Query the slug column directly:

Restaurant.where(:slug => "joes-diner")

### Routes for Scoped Models

Recall that FriendlyId is a database-centric library, and does not set up any routes for scoped models. You must do this yourself in your application. Here’s an example of one way to set this up:

# in routes.rb
resources :cities do
  resources :restaurants
end

# in views
<%= link_to 'Show', [@city, @restaurant] %>

# in controllers
@city = City.friendly.find(params[:city_id])
@restaurant = @city.restaurants.friendly.find(params[:id])

# URLs:
http://example.org/cities/seattle/restaurants/joes-diner
http://example.org/cities/chicago/restaurants/joes-diner

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Configuration

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(model_class) ⇒ Object

Sets up behavior and configuration options for FriendlyId’s scoped slugs feature.



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# File 'lib/friendly_id/scoped.rb', line 112

def self.included(model_class)
  model_class.class_eval do
    friendly_id_config.class.send :include, Configuration
  end
end

.setup(model_class) ⇒ Object

FriendlyId::Config.use will invoke this method when present, to allow loading dependent modules prior to overriding them when necessary.



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# File 'lib/friendly_id/scoped.rb', line 106

def self.setup(model_class)
  model_class.friendly_id_config.use :slugged
end

Instance Method Details

#serialized_scope ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/friendly_id/scoped.rb', line 118

def serialized_scope
  friendly_id_config.scope_columns.sort.map { |column| "#{column}:#{send(column)}" }.join(",")
end

#should_generate_new_friendly_id? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/friendly_id/scoped.rb', line 140

def should_generate_new_friendly_id?
  (changed & friendly_id_config.scope_columns).any? || super
end