Suggestion: create an 'acts_as_sluggable' method on activerecord::base

[hazah]

I think it could be as simple as:

# Activate Slugalicious on all models
ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
  self.instance_eval do
    def self.acts_as_sluggable
      include Slugalicious
    end
  end
end

[RISCfuture]

EDIT: Misunderstood comment.

Neat idea, but it's 6 or 7 lines of code for a net savings of 0 lines of code :)

[hazah]

Sorry to be beating a horse that seems dead... The main thought is along the lines of consistency (amongst rails plugins the 'acts_as' paradigm seems the norm) It looks better in code when things are somewhat grouped (I tend to have the acts_as stuff bunched up away from other model functions). Personal reasons aside, there is one benefit I can see with this little modification:

ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
  self.instance_eval do
    def self.acts_as_sluggable
      include Slugalicious *args, &block
      slugged *args, &block
    end
  end
end

This would at least save 1 line of client code :). Anyway. I leave it up to you. I too favour small (very small) foot-prints, but sometimes consistency wins for me.