How To Create Search Friendly Slugs in Rails

FriendlyId is a very good gem that allows you to replace ids in your URLs with strings. This lets your Rails app work with ‘friendly’ URLs like ‘myapp/users/john’ as opposed to  ‘myapp/users/1’.

Ruby on Rails development companies considers this gem as most essential for Rails applications due to its ability to make links memorable. 

David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails Creator: Interview

Introduction

David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning race car driver, family man, frequent podcast guest, and inspirational conference speaker.

Ruby on Rails was created by David in 2003. From the day Evrone was founded, in 2008, we've been using the Rails open-source web framework daily. It has helped us write truly beautiful code for our projects thousands of times. In addition to creating one of the most useful tools in software development, David has accomplished many other impressive feats, from writing the books 'It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work,' 'REWORK,' and 'REMOTE: Office Not Required,' to racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship. In 2014, he came in first in his class in the 82nd running of The 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's most prestigious sports car endurance race. He also won the WEC championship in the GTE-Am category that year.