Mongo ids leads to scary URLs

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ming yeow picture ming yeow · Jan 20, 2011 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

This might sound like a trivial question, but it is rather important for consumer facing apps

What is the easiest way and most scalable way to map the scary mongo id onto a id that is friendly?

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Answer

kerberoS picture kerberoS · Feb 11, 2011

You can create a composite key in mongoid to replace the default id using the key macro:

class Person
  include Mongoid::Document
  field :first_name
  field :last_name
  key :first_name, :last_name
end

person = Person.new(:first_name => "Syd", :last_name => "Vicious")
person.id # returns "syd-vicious"

If you don't like this way to do it, check this gem: https://github.com/hakanensari/mongoid-slug

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