Ruby on Rails

> On Jan 25, 2019, at 6:00 AM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I wanna convert my news stories to use slug urls based on the :headline column instead of id's but some of the rows contain special characters like double quotes, exclamation points, do I need to gsub those out

An interesting theory, but FriendlyId already does this, quite elaborately. The logic that does the "dumbification" is delegated to ActiveSupport's parameterize method, which takes everything not-ASCII and transliterates it into ASCII, and replaces any run of whitespace with a single dash, and removes punctuation. Next, the slug is checked for duplicates with any existing record, and a UUID is appended if so. It's really quite well done and very settled code. I have been using FriendlyId for 8 years or more without encountering any error that wasn't my own mistake.

In another of your many threads, you mention that you are trying to create a slug out of the article's text, rather than the headline (as the documentation encourages). You may want to try starting from a truncated copy of the article text (or even following the directions) before you assume that FriendlyId is at fault here. I doubt that your article text will fit into the size constraints of a URL segment, particularly if you worry about IE users seeing the thing at all*'

Walter

*The entire URL, including prefix, host, port, and path, must be no more than 1,024 characters ASCII in order to be visited by IE.