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berkelep: if i have controller/action/tag_id0/tag_id1 as my url is there a way to have it displayed as controller/action/tag_name0/tag_name1 but to still use the tag ids for the request? berkelep: the reason i need to have ids in the url instead of tag name is because some of the tags have the same name, different parent tags ariejan: berkelep: override to_param and make it like "id-name" ariejan: "#{id}-#{name}". When calling to_i on it, it will convert to a valid interger ;-) rsl: berkelep: check out acts_as_url in my stringex plugin as well and you don't need that silly "id-" part. berkelep: ariejan, rsl: thanks. rsl: and smarter conversion of strings as well. dblack: rsl: how would acts_as_url handle two tags with the same name? rsl: dblack: it adds -1 to the second. etc etc. like technoweenie's does. etc etc == -1, -2, -3 etc dblack: rsl: so the 'silly' -1 thing instead of the 'silly' id- thing rsl: dblack: is there a point? or just trying to put me in my place? dblack: rsl: neither rsl</span>: just wistful rsl: dblack: i don't see "foo" and "foo-1" [as differentiating permalinks] nearly as "silly" as id-name which really just masks find_by_id anyhow. rsl: the real gain of acts_as_url is not using iconv for transliteration.

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