doesprettyurls

= DoesPrettyURLs

Uses ActiveRecord to_param to force your individual models to have attractive, slug-like, and more SEO-friendly URLs.

== Installation

Do the usual, of course:

gem install doesprettyurls

And add a gem dependency to your Gemfile:

gem "doesprettyurls", ">=0.1.0"

== Example Usage

To add pretty URL support for objects of a given model, declare your desire for fanciness within the ActiveRecord model:

doesprettyurls

This will, by default, surgically attach a "slug"-ified version of your object's :name attribute to the objects id in URLs and for finders. This means where you used to have this:

tag = <Tag @id=5, @name="Beer and Brats", @title="Something Really Cool"...>

http://myrailsproject.com/tags/5

You would now have something a bit fancier and search engine friendly like this:

http://myrailsproject.com/tags/5-beer-and-brats

You can tell the doesprettyurls invocation to use a different field for slugification, too. Just pass it along in your method call:

doesprettyurls :attribute=>:title

For the same object object, you'd now see this URL used in your site:

http://myrailsproject.com/tags/5-something-really-cool

Voila! Se Magnifique!

== Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Awexome Labs, LLC. http://awexomelabs.com/