Use username-yyyymmdd-subject-line slugs.

app/models/update.rb

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 class Update < ActiveRecord::Base
   extend FriendlyId
-  friendly_id :subject, use: :slugged
+  friendly_id :user_date_subject, use: :slugged
   attr_accessible :body, :subject, :user_id
   belongs_to :user
   default_scope order("created_at desc")
 
-  def to_param
-      "#{created_at.year}/#{created_at.month}/#{created_at.day}/#{slug}"
+  def user_date_subject
+    # slugs are created before created_at is set
+    time = created_at || Time.now
+    "#{user.username} #{time.strftime("%Y%m%d")} #{subject}"
   end
 end

config/routes.rb

@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ Growstuff::Application.routes.draw do
   resources :members
   devise_for :users
 
-  match "/updates/:year/:month/:day/:id", :to => "updates#show"
-  match "/updates/:id", :to => "updates#show"
-
   get "home/index"
 
   # The priority is based upon order of creation:

spec/controllers/updates_controller_spec.rb

@@ -66,16 +66,6 @@ describe UpdatesController do
     end
   end
 
-  describe "GET show" do
-    it "assigns the requested update as @update fetching with dates" do
-      update = Update.create! valid_attributes
-      date = update.created_at
-      get :show, {:year => date.year, :month => date.month, :day => date.day,
-        :id => update.slug}
-      assigns(:update).should eq(update)
-    end
-  end
-
   describe "GET new" do
     it "assigns a new update as @update" do
       get :new, {}

spec/models/update_spec.rb

@@ -1,15 +1,25 @@
 require 'spec_helper'
 
 describe Update do
+  before(:each) do
+    user = User.create! :username => "test", :password => "password",
+      :email => "test@example.com", :tos_agreement => true
+    user.confirm!
+    @id = user.id
+  end
+
   it "should be sorted in reverse order" do
-    Update.create! :subject => "first entry", :body => "blah", :user_id => 1
-    Update.create! :subject => "second entry", :body => "blah", :user_id => 1
+    Update.create! :subject => "first entry", :body => "blah", :user_id => @id
+    Update.create! :subject => "second entry", :body => "blah", :user_id => @id
     Update.first.subject.should == "second entry"
   end
 
   it "should have a slug" do
     update = Update.create! :subject => "slugs are nasty",
-      :body => "They leave slime everywhere", :user_id => 1
-    update.slug.should == "slugs-are-nasty"
+      :body => "They leave slime everywhere", :user_id => @id
+    time = update.created_at
+    datestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d")
+    datestr.length.should == 8
+    update.slug.should == "test-#{datestr}-slugs-are-nasty"
   end
 end