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Is there any easy way to encrypt the URL params that is seen in the URL. I dont feel comfortable exposing the id of the models to the external user. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on the most efficient way of making sure users never see internal table IDs? Clearly, scaffold views show a lot of IDs by default and those can be hidden. The problem seems to be all of the IDs that Rails passes around in URLs (such as http://mysite.com/user/show/12345). My primary concerns are security and confidentiality--one can imagine that there