SlugFu

Yet Another gem for generating slug strings suitable for URLs (or whatever your slug business may be).

What makes this one different? This gives you tools for ensuring the uniqueness of your slugs, and if your slug is not unique it allows you to plug in different strategies for generating unique slugs.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'slug_fu'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install slug_fu

Usage

include SlugFu

SlugFu(string) # doesn't need to check uniqueness, just make a slug string

SlugFu(string, context: %w(one two)) # generated slug will unique as far as `context.include?(slug)` is concerned

class NamingStrategy
  def initialize(str)
    @str = str
  end

  def next
    @next = @next.nil? ? @str : @next + "-"
  end
end
SlugFu("one", context: %w(one one-), naming_strategy: NamingStrategy) # Use a custom strategy for naming, calling #next until a unique name is found

Usage with Rails

SlugFu supplies SlugFu::ModelContext for ensuring uniqueness on Rails models.

include SlugFu

SlugFu(str, context: SlugFu::ModelContext.new(Book)) # slug will be unique for the `Book#slug` attribute
SlugFu(str, context: SlugFu::ModelContext.new(Book.where(language: "en")) # slug will be unique for the `Book#slug` attribute in the given scope
SlugFu(str, context: SlugFu::ModelContext.new(Book, :url_slug)) # slug will be unique for the `Book#url_slug` attribute

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/soulcutter/slug_fu

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.