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Hello. I''m creating my own RESTful blog app. I am wondering about creating post slugs. I think Wordpress creates a slug at post creation time and stores the string in the database, then uses that for URLs. I read about the acts_as_sluggable strategy (http:// agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_sluggable) but I don''t like having a number (the ID) in the URL. Any

Hi, I''m pretty new to the concept of restful routing and am struggling to find any rails 2 info that helps with what I''m looking for. I have a regular scaffold setup and the routes are setup as default map.resources :pages I would like to be able to use titles in the url rather than relying on the id. Eg localhost:3000/pages/sometitle instead of just localhost:3000/pages/1

In the process of upgrading from 1.8 to 1.9 we are getting a lot of warnings about "Ruby 1.9 doesn''t support Unicode normalization yet". However the commit that added those lines is from 2008 and just mentions "Ruby 1.9 compat: no Unicode normalization support yet" without any references. Does anyone know whether this is still true for ruby 1.9 and for which minor

Running Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 3.0.7 on a Windows 7 machine - tried going through an upgrade to Ruby 1.9.2 over the weekend, but ran into issues, so have since gone back to 1.8.7. After restoring my app and re-installing all of the gems, the application finally launches with rails s: => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.7 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d