friendly-id

I've set up the friendly_id gem, following along to the RailsCasts Screencast on it. Locally this works brilliantly, I installed it, ran through User.find_each(&:save) which successfully updated the slug field on each of the existing users and all was fine. I have now pushed this to Heroku, and although it works fine for any new members that are added, Heroku isn't updating the user slug for me for already existing Users. Running heroku run console and then User.find_each(&:save) just does nothing: irb(main):001:0> User.find_each(&:save) User Load (20.2ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE (

I have a model which I use its friendly id as slug: extend FriendlyId friendly_id :slug_candidates, :use => :scoped, :scope => :account def slug_candidates :title_and_sequence end def title_and_sequence slug = normalize_friendly_id(title) : # some login to add sequence in case of collision : end My problem is that when I use non-Latin chars (Arab, Hebrew,...) I get an empty slug. Is there any nice-and-easy solution? UPDATE Just to make my question clear, I would like to have the same behaviour as WordPress, which means: +--------------------+----------------------------------------------------

When I add article in Korean language with title e.g.: 신품 FriendlyID gem creates blank slug and url is like /8 ... so this is ID. Look at this link: http://www.srecipe.kr.com/articles/8 Other languages work. How can I get url which is mapped to latin letters like /this-is-url from 신품 ? Like all of these permalink solutions, friendly ID uses the parameterize method to convert a string into a URL safe string. like so: require 'active_support/all' puts "Oh Hai There".parameterize => oh-hai-there The problem comes in when you use non ASCII strings, which parameterize replaces with an empty string,