title: Best way to generate slugs (human-readable IDs) in Rails
body: <p>You know, like myblog.com/posts/donald-e-knuth.</p>
  
  <p>Should I <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252506/rails-slugs-in-url-using-record-title-instead-of-id">do this with the built in <code>parameterize</code> method</a>?</p>
  
  <p>What about a plugin? I could imagine a plugin being nice for handling duplicate slugs, etc. Here are some popular Github plugins -- does anyone have any experience with them?</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://github.com/rsl/stringex/tree/master" rel="noreferrer">http://github.com/rsl/stringex/tree/master</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://github.com/norman/friendly_id/tree/master" rel="noreferrer">http://github.com/norman/friendly_id/tree/master</a></li>
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  <p>Basically it seems like slugs are a totally solved problem, and I don't to reinvent the wheel.</p>