New blog application post slugs

rubyonrails-talk
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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 implementation tips from how Mephisto or typo does it? Is there anything wrong with creating a slug at creation time, is there a better way to do this? I'll also be importing a Wordpress database with existing slugs.

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Hi Ryan. It looks like stringexs creates excellent slugs, in fact I'm really impressed by the work being done converting dollars signs to words, converting chinese characters to english etc. So then to solve my problem you support creating a permalink/slug and storing that in my "posts" table?

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Yes.