Sneaky Abstractions

I don’t nessesarily agree that acts_as_sluggable is ‘worthless’. As you say, it’s easy to define to_param. But to define it in several models?

So ‘DRY-fanatics’ can just build a lib. Yes sure, but having it a plugin is more convenient. I have models with head, title, name and your plugin supports all of those things fine.

Therefore: i vote to keep acts_as_sluggable alive. It might be useless to you, but is not to me!

Well, the plugin is still available from SVN, and I think it’s quite stable (i.e. no bugs and no planned features), so if you find it useful I’m not going to stop you from using it :)

Can you please explain, how completely to_params replaced acts_as_sluggable.

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.