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Aron Solberg
Aron Solberg

Reputation: 6878

link_to helper method not working with friendlyId Gem in production

It's strange it works on my dev environment but when I deploy it continues to link to the product ID.

I am using Rails 4.04 and the FriendlyId v5 Gem. On development when I do this:

<%= link_to image_tag(product.photos.first.image.url(:feed)), product %>

It generates a picture with a link that looks like this:

http://localhost:3000/products/my-product-slug

But when I deploy to production the same code generates

http://myprodserver.com/products/68

Why would this be happening?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 503

Answers (1)

kiddorails
kiddorails

Reputation: 13014

As discussed with you, the problem is that you are explicitly generating the slug field in your model.

Though you have correctly configured FriendlyID in your model - but in production, there are still many products for which slug field may not have value. You need to generate the slugs for them before you can access the route correctly (as intended).

I take that the slug generation part is in some sort of some callback. So, in production, you can do:

Product.find_each(&:save) to create slugs.

FriendlyID should then work perfectly! :)

Good luck. :)

Upvotes: 1

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