Rails SEO/Freindly URLs

to get decent SEO URLs in your rails app, app the following snippet to the model in question

  #change the URL of the apps to be more SEO friendly
  def to_param
      "#{id}-#{parameterize}"
  end

that would generate URLs as the following

http://www.barmajeyat.com/apps/1-tajweed

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4 comments

  2. Faisal
    April 28, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    You can get the same result with:

    def to_param
    “#{id}-#{name.parametrize}”
    end

    Nothing serious, but looks better :)

  3. Faisal
    May 5, 2010 at 9:29 am

    aah, There’s a typo in my previous comment. It’s “parameterize”. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/String/Inflections.html#M001367

  4. Zaid B. Amireh
    May 5, 2010 at 10:49 am

    thanks for the tip Faisal, I have updated the post :>

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