friendly_id_slugs Table

Question

Working on another deployment & found that rails generate friendly_id (as recommended by the Friendly_Id Documentation creates a new table called friendly_id_slugs - is this right or legacy?

Answer 1

From the documentation:

FriendlyId's History module adds the ability to store a log of a model's slugs, so that when its friendly id changes, it's still possible to perform finds by the old id.

The primary use case for this is avoiding broken URLs.

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Setup

In order to use this module, you must add a table to your database schema to store the slug records. FriendlyId provides a generator for this purpose:

rails generate friendly_id rake db:migrate This will add a table named friendly_id_slugs, used by the FriendlyId::Slug model.