Can't get the gem to work about mongoid-slug HOT 5 CLOSED

I got it to work.

What's not working, and I didn't know that, is that you can't do:

event = Event.new({ title: 'New title' })
event.slug

You'll get something that looks like (potential future) event mongo ID.

I think friendly_id had this working so I assumed this gem works the same way.

I'm not sure there's much to be added regarding this issue to the README. @dblock Should I submit a PR with a sentence mentioning that slug is generated only on save?

Is there any way to customize the db field? I'd like to use slug string field instead of _slugs array.

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I am confused by what's going on above. Is the problem just that trying to access the slug on an unsaved model doesn't give you the slug value? That would be worth documenting. I also think that we should be probably raising an exception trying to access the slug on an unsaved model, so maybe open a feature request?

Customizing the db field seems unrelated. I am pretty sure we don't support a custom name, but would like to. Same re: feature request/PR.

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I'm pretty sure this is the line of code that returns the id of unsaved record: https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid-slug/blob/master/lib/mongoid/slug.rb#L252

I heavily modified the library to store the slug in slug field in the database, so it works for my use-case, but the code changes I made are definitely not PR ready for this gem/repo.

I'll close this issue as it's resolved. Thank you!
I won't be working on adding mentioned features as I'll be using my messy modified version of the gem. It's only a temporary (which never is) solution for a quick project I'm working on.

Thank you!

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Thanks @vfonic. Be aware that the library stores an array of slugs, not a single slug and a lot of care went into ensuring many scenarios work.

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