Hashid Rails
This gem allows you to easily use Hashids in your Rails app. Instead of your models using sequential numbers like 1, 2, 3, they will instead have unique short hashes like “yLA6m0oM”, “5bAyD0LO”, and “wz3MZ49l”. The database will still use integers under the hood, so this gem can be added or removed at any time.
Installation
Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:
gem 'hashid-rails'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install hashid-rails
Usage
Just use Model#find passing in the hashid instead of the model id:
@person = People.find(params[:hashid])
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/hashid-rails/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request