Ancestry VS FriendlyId

Compare Ancestry vs FriendlyId and see what are their differences.

Ancestry

Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure (by stefankroes)

FriendlyId

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. (by norman)
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Ancestry FriendlyId
6 7
3,735 6,150
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7.2 6.3
9 days ago 10 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Ancestry

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ancestry. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-01.

FriendlyId

Posts with mentions or reviews of FriendlyId. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-25.
  • Designing a Website Without 404s
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2024
    You can do that with many websites that have ids in their SEO slugs, this is usually not an issue as it's still standardized in a way that the string is just split into the id and the rest and you can look it up with both parts.

    Popular libraries like https://github.com/norman/friendly_id implement it like that too.

  • Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2023
    On a side note, "Sqids ... is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers.", "The main use of Sqids is purely visual."

    If the purpose of it is to give a friendlier url / id, who not use something like friendly_id instead? (http://norman.github.io/friendly_id).

    The url is readable and searchable through the history.

    I would much rather prefer people using "www.website.com/channel/video/a-dog-walking" instead of "www.website.com/channel/video/3cXv8c".

  • How to ensure params are correct in URL after deleting a record?
    1 project | /r/rails | 20 Feb 2023
    Take a look at https://github.com/norman/friendly_id for a good gem to implement them.
  • replacing id with slug in routes.rb
    1 project | /r/rails | 12 Feb 2022
    Check out the friendly_id gem! I remember watching a GoRails video about it and thinking it looked super easy to implement.
  • Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
    63 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021
    SEO tools - meta-tags, sitemap_generator and friendly_id
  • Devise Profile Usernames
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Feb 2021
    friendly_id - We will use the friendly_id gem, which created slugs that we can map to a predetermined route. This is a method you can use throughout an application, not just with the User models.
  • 26 most popular Ruby/Rails repositories on GitHub in July-August 2020
    26 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2020
    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. 5,500 stars by now

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ancestry and FriendlyId you can also consider the following projects:

Closure Tree - Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

Prerender Rails - Rails middleware gem for prerendering javascript-rendered pages on the fly for SEO

Awesome Nested Set - An awesome replacement for acts_as_nested_set and better_nested_set.

Rack Canonical Host - Rack middleware for defining a canonical host name.

ActsAsTree - ActsAsTree -- Extends ActiveRecord to add simple support for organizing items into parent–children relationships.

MetaTags - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Ruby on Rails applications.

rails_or - Cleaner syntax for writing OR Query in Rails 5, 6. And also add #or support to Rails 3 and 4.

SitemapGenerator - SitemapGenerator is a framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby with automatic Rails integration. It supports Video, News, Image, Mobile, PageMap and Alternate Links sitemap extensions and includes Rake tasks for managing your sitemaps, as well as many other great features.

Mongoid Tree - A tree structure for Mongoid documents using the materialized path pattern

yandex_xml - Gem yandex_xml. Get data from Yandex.XML service by XML

counter_culture - Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.

refinerycms-blog - The very best blogging engine for Refinery CMS

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