Sluggy

Minimal slugging/permalink gem for ActiveRecord. Nothing fancy.

Built with rails 3.2 and ruby 1.9.2 in mind.

Features

• Slug generation with sequence support.
• Slug validation.
• 40 LOC & fully tested.

Slug pattern

• downcase and strip
• remove non [a-z0-9-_]
• replace spaces with '-'
• if conflict add separator '--' with sequence number

Validations

• Presence
• Format with Sluggy::SLUG_REGEX
• Length within 1..100
• Uniqueness

Use like this

slug_for :title
slug_for :title, :column => :slug
slug_for :title, :column => :slug, :scope => :account_id

Defaults are :column => :permalink, :scope => nil

Install

gem 'sluggy'

Copyright (c) 2012 Ary Djmal, released under the MIT license.