Slugs do not initialize

[vanboom]

When mongoid-slug is added to an existing application, the Model.slugs field is blank until every document is re-saved.

Suggestion: have a rake task or some default logic in mongoid-slug that will handle this initial case. Applications with large data sets that have business logic around "updated_at" may not want to re-save each instance to get the slug behavior.

Thanks!

[digitalplaywright]

That would be a great addition to the wiki. Maybe something could be based around the migration document? Especially the slow migration template.

• https://github.com/digitalplaywright/mongoid-slug/wiki/How-to-upgrade-to-1.0.0-or-newer

[pencilcheck]

Yea, would be nice to have it generated initially for existing documents, was confused why it didn't work.
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[tbbooher]

agreed, at least for me . . . very grateful for this issue.

[anuja-joshi]

@digitalplaywright I am looking into this issue and wrote a rake task that will set slug for existing records, to load this task into Rails we need to use Rails::Railtie, that will be Rails specific. Do you want this task to support any other frameworks ?

[simi]

@anuja-joshi You can add just task file and inform users to load that rake tasks file into their rake stack.

[dblock]

A rake task was added in 8abb60d.