Is friendly_id safe to use?

friendly_id has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.6.0). DepScope rates its health at 63/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of friendly_id?

The latest version of friendly_id is 5.6.0, released 2025-12-06.

Does friendly_id have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of friendly_id.

Is friendly_id deprecated?

No, friendly_id is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.6.0 (2025-12-06).

What are alternatives to friendly_id?

Popular alternatives to friendly_id in RubyGems include: jmespath, netrc, thread_safe, crass, tzinfo.

What license does friendly_id use?

friendly_id is licensed under MIT.

friendly_id

rubygemsv5.6.0

FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Active Record. It lets you create pretty URLs and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids.

License MITpermissive20 versions1 deps771,687 weekly dl

http://github.com/norman/friendly_id

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 63/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

14/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

activerecord

API access

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