Sneaky Abstractions

Tauruz: All acts_as_sluggable did was define a default to_param with some simple replacement and patch ActiveRecord::Base#find to be able to find a record by ID with a string like “10-foo-bar”. AR doesn’t need this patch anymore, and defining a to_param method on a model is not much more work than adding acts_as_sluggable to it. As a bonus, you know exactly how your to_param works and can modify it without having to look deep inside a plugin directory to find it.