SEO friendly URLs in Rails with friendly_id, goodbye permalink_fu!

SEO friendly URLs can be accomplished through various methods in Rails. Most of the time I have been using permalink_fu for most of my URL rewrites. Recently, my friend published a great replacement to permalink_fu called friendly_id. 

http://www.jonathansng.com/blog/1

will automagically become

http://www.jonathansng.com/blog/why_this_plugin_rocks

As an added benefit, if you already have permalinks in play friendly_id will 301 redirect incoming requests so you don’t get dinged!

Check out friendly_id over at agilewebdevelopment.com or at his site.