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 6
3,667 6,092
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5.8 6.3
28 days ago 2 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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