Work with friendly_id

[Preston Lee]

The friendly_id gem is really handy for creating user-readable resource paths, and the master branch now works with Rails 4 as well. Currently, a before_action must be set in order to call the `find' defined by friendly_id instead of ActiveRecord's, like so:

before_action :set_foo, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]

def foo
    @foo = Foo.friendly.find(params[:id])
end

It would be really nice if inherited_resources could check for the presence of Foo.friendly and use Foo.friendly.find instead, allowing DRYer controllers when both are present!

[Joel Moss]

That's a pretty specific request which doesn't really belong in IR. As you pointed out, it can already be done using a before_action.

[Michael Kaiser-Nyman]

I too would like to see integration with friendly_id, but as a workaround that doesn't require the before_action, you can simply add :use => [:slugged, :finders] to your model to overwrite .find.

[Thomas Darde]

Hi,

You also can override your controller like this :

  defaults resource_class: User.friendly