how do I blacklist users slugs with friendly id?

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I want to use friendly id so that users can have a nice url. However I want to blacklist certain names such as api or admin or curse words. Where do I load the yaml file to do that? in the model?

friendly id has an [initializer](https://github.com/norman/friendly_id/blob/master/lib/friendly_id/initializer.rb) where you can configure reserved words. — j-dexx, Jun 12 '15 at 09:34

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '15 at 10:26

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Give the following code a try-

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend FriendlyId
  excluded_words = ["admin", "api"]
  friendly_id_config.reserved_words.concat(excluded_words)
  friendly_id :name, use: [:slugged, :finders]
end

answered Jun 12 '15 at 10:26

Darpa

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thanks darpa, if I want to let me user have the choice create a slug, how would I go about doing that? At the moment I have it automatically set with their given name – caffeinescript Jun 23 '15 at 09:16
oh found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19989827/user-editable-slugs-with-friendly-id?rq=1 – caffeinescript Jun 23 '15 at 09:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 15 '15 at 17:10

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def check_slug_blacklist
  blacklist = YAML.load_file(Rails.root.join('config/blacklist.yml'))
  if blacklist.include?(self.slug)
    self.errors.add :slug, "Please choose to a different slug"  # TO DO USE I18n
  end
end

edited Jun 15 '15 at 17:10

MZaragoza

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answered Jun 15 '15 at 14:20

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how do I blacklist users slugs with friendly id?

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