FriendlyId VS Bridgetown

Compare FriendlyId vs Bridgetown and see what are their differences.

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)

Bridgetown

A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby (by bridgetownrb)
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FriendlyId Bridgetown
6 33
6,092 1,067
- 2.3%
6.3 8.7
2 months ago about 20 hours ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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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.

Bridgetown

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bridgetown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
  • Do we really need variadics?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 11 Jul 2023
    I'm using bridgetown because I like sitting on the bleeding edge, its basically a newer Jekyll which I would recommend checking out too. Bridgetown has a great modern dev experience but its missing some of the ecosystem from Jekyll. Not a problem for me because I'm really comfortable with Ruby.
  • Why write technical content on a blog and not only on social media
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Jun 2023
    If you want to have a different UI or your blog to look in a very specific way I recommend using Jekyll or Bridgetown.
  • How would I make and deploy a simple website
    4 projects | /r/rails | 26 May 2023
    If I wanted to post a simple website today I would look into Jekyll. There are a ton of articles and answers to common questions etc. It itself is written in Ruby but using it will not likely help you to learn Ruby. One-step in the direction of learning Ruby and getting a simple website could be Bridgetown. This will start you down a path of learning Ruby and not Rails. We use Bridgetown for our company site at Flagrant.
  • How to use View Transitions in Hotwire Turbo
    10 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    In the Hotwire Turbo world specifically, several discussions about integrating transition animations also took place and a few promising approaches emerged, namely the Turn project or the transitions in Bridgetown. There is also a chapter in the Noel Rappin’s Modern Front-End book and an interesting article but overall, frankly, this topic still fells somewhat early-stage and exploratory.
  • Help with picking a framework for a personal website
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 12 Feb 2023
    https://www.bridgetownrb.com/ static site generator. Can be linked with prism of you want a kind of panel to add new articles.
  • How to integrate a static website to Rails app
    4 projects | /r/rails | 11 Feb 2023
    FYI. I used Bridgetown as a static site generator recently and rather enjoyed it. https://github.com/bridgetownrb/bridgetown.
  • [student help] Using Rails as front end. Is it possible?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 11 Jan 2023
  • how to add a simple blog to my SaaS?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 28 Dec 2022
    If you’re not adept in that right now you’re unlikely to create a system to support it. I would encourage you to look into Jekyll or Bridgetown.rb as blog systems that support all the SEO bells and whistles without you having to recreate them.
  • Learning Rails vs JS ecosystem?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 27 Nov 2022
    Thanks! Yeah Ruby is great. Rails, on the other hand, presented a steep learning curve to me, so I found it helpful to build a site with Bridgetown first. Here's a good intro to Bridgetown in case that sounds interesting.
  • Building Static Websites w/ Rails in 2022
    5 projects | /r/rails | 6 Nov 2022
    I don't know middleman, but can recommend https://www.bridgetownrb.com/ – it's a modern and well maintained static site generator which supports a lot of technologies known from the Rails world such as HAML through plugins.

What are some alternatives?

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

Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development

Awesome Jekyll - A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, plugins, guides, etc.)

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

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

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

Directus - The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.

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

Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system

webgen - webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator