Mongo ids leads to scary URLs

Question

This might sound like a trivial question, but it is rather important for consumer facing apps

What is the easiest way and most scalable way to map the scary mongo id onto a id that is friendly?

xx.com/posts/4d371056183b5e09b20001f9

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xx.com/posts/a

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Answer 1

You can create a composite key in mongoid to replace the default id using the key macro:

class Person   include Mongoid::Document   field :first_name   field :last_name   key :first_name, :last_name end  person = Person.new(:first_name => "Syd", :last_name => "Vicious") person.id # returns "syd-vicious" 

If you don't like this way to do it, check this gem: https://github.com/hakanensari/mongoid-slug