We ran into the problem of Eager Loading not workin on on the project I work on (http://www.feistypiranha.com) so we decided to fix it up.

I posted the solution that we came up with on our blog (http://www.feistypiranha.com/getting-friendly_id-to-work/). I have only done limited testing with it, but in theory all parameters should work now… So you can do :conditions => “1 = 2″, and it will correctly fail (Not return any results. Since, as far as I know, 1 != 2)

The method we changed was “find_using_friendly_id” in the SluggableClassMethods module. (Line 127)
And the updated code goes as follows:

# Finds the record using only the friendly id. If it can’t be found
# using the friendly id, then it returns false. If you pass in any
# argument other than an instance of String, then it also returns false.
def find_using_friendly_id(*args)
return false unless args.first.kind_of?(String)
slug = Slug.find_by_name_and_sluggable_type(args.first, self.to_s)
begin
# Get the class and pass our options
object_class = Module.const_get(slug.sluggable_type)
options = args.extract_options!
return object_class.find(slug.sluggable_id, options)
rescue # The class was bad, use the old slug way
return false if !slug
return false if !slug.sluggable
slug.sluggable.send(:finder_slug=, slug)
slug.sluggable
end
end

Take care everyone, hope this helps!
Robert

You can use any method to generate the friendly id, it doesn’t just have to be a column. So you coud do something like this:

has_friendly_id :title_and_username, :use_slug => true

def title_and_username
“#{user.name}-#{title}”
end

I’ll look into this. If you want, send me an email to norman@randomba.org and give me some more specifics on what fails; I’ll work on a fix.

Try using slugs.

But I’ll look into adding better support for “slugless” mode, you’re not the first person to ask about this.

e.g. http:www.website.com/post/joe_This_is_a_title where “joe” is the user that created the post. Of course, I don’t want the username actually prepended to the post title in my posts table.

Thanks in advance.

I’ll keep svn up until Rails 2.1 has been out for a few months. At that point I’ll stop supporting svn unless I hear from a lot of people who still need it.