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friendly_id

RubyGems · v5.7.0 · MIT

FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Active Record. It lets you create pretty URLs and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids.

Install

gem install friendly_id

Adoption

All-time downloads
60.8M
Observeddownloads, all time
Popularity
Top 50% on RubyGems
Derived66th percentile within RubyGems
Dependents
179
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.53
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
6.7
113 versions over its life

Growth by period

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Adoption history

Adoption historydownloads, all time

Observations in this range began OCT 6, 2026. The chart appears after 7 observations; 2 so far. Collecting history.

Table of observations (2)
Daydownloads, all timeDependents
OCT 24, 202660,835,847179
OCT 6, 202660,108,181Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v5.7.0
113 versions
First published
JUL 25, 2009
Last release
MAY 8, 2026
6mo ago
Licence
MIT

Repository

In the Crest catalog

norman/friendly_id

FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.

Stars
6.2K
Forks
591
Language
Ruby
Last push
2mo ago
Last release
6mo ago

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Dependencies latest version · v5.7.0

Runtime 1

  • activerecord>= 4.0.0

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