Question

I’m using Devise for my User model and sessions control. I’d like to use path names like “/users/my-awesome-username” rather than “/users/1” so that I don’t advertise how many users are in the database. What is the best practice for doing so when using Devise?

I’m using rails 3.1 and devise 1.4.7 if that matters.

Answer 1

You could either just define a User#to_param method that returns the username.

However, if you’d want to do some more fancy stuff, like generating unique slugs for blog posts or something like that, then there’s a Gem called Friendly Id that takes care of this for you.