Add a slug type field partial?

[jagthedrummer]

Sometimes models need to have a user-settable url slug, and it might be nice to have this built in to BT.

For instance, if the Team model had a slug you might be able to view a team at /teams/my-team instead of at /teams/a39bc12.

It's kind of just a text_field with some additional requirements and validations (like uniqueness, for example), but there's also the matter of looking up models by slug instead of by id/obfuscated-id, which can be solved by changing to_param.

Maybe this is more application specific than generic and wouldn't be a good addition to BT. Just wanted to throw it out there and see what other people think.

Here's an article that talks about lots of the specific details that we'd need to address if we wanted to do something: https://nts.strzibny.name/activerecord-model-slugs/

[pascallaliberte]

I feel this should be packaged into the obfuscated_id functionality directly, defaulting to the :slug column, but configurable.

A slug is also a way to obfuscate the id, and to_param and find could be made to prefer the slug if defined, and fall back to the hashId.

[jagthedrummer]

Ooooh, that's a good connection, @pascallaliberte! I think you're absolutely right on that.