I am using Friendly_ID for slugs on my site and it is working...sort of. I can access the routes correctly, but when I follow a link to the page, it still shows the id. For example, I have a link that shows the following:
<%= link_to "X", location_path(@location, :id => "1")
which displayed the url as localhost:3000/locations/1 so I changed the link to:
<%= link_to "X", location_path(@location, :id => "X")
which displays properly (localhost:3000/locations/X) but when you look at the href of the link in after you navigate to its page, it is displayed as <a ... href="/locations/X.X">...</a>.
Why is the link displaying X.X and not simple X?
You don't need to pass id to the location_path. It will be picked up from @location. Drop id from location_path and it should fix the problem.