Updating Article Slugs (API Spec) about realworld

[apai4]

@xemexpress The original thinking was that you wouldn't want your URL's to change when the author makes changes to the title otherwise you could get broken links if someone linked to an article externally.

You can make the slugs update on every save by changing this line in article.rb in the before_validation block:

before_validation do
- self.slug ||= "#{title.to_s.parameterize}-#{rand(36**6).to_s(36)}"
+ self.slug = "#{title.to_s.parameterize}-#{rand(36**6).to_s(36)}"
end

[EricSimons]

This is intended functionality, no?

[xemexpress]

Yes though 😛 I just don't know why users shouldn't make that change (on :slug)
Any help?

[EricSimons]

Ahhh I understand what you're saying now. Changing the slug won't actually cause anything to break, as the frontends redirect to whatever slug you hand back in the article payload for the PUT request. So updating slugs are a "nice-to-have" but not mission critical for core functionality :)

That said, @apai4 any recs on how the Rails stack could support updating article slugs?

Btw I just updated the API spec w/ the delete call FYI, shocked no one has caught that until now!