Access developer profiles via slug, only

[joemasilotti]

The goal of this PR is to obfuscate the developer's ID to a hard-to-guess string of characters.

A PR addressing this issue should:

• [ ] Migrate the developers table primary key to UUID
• [ ] Ensure linking to developers works via developer_path(developer)
• [ ] Ensure “old” developer routes (e.g. /developers/1) return a 404

Notes and links:

• Datatypes UUID - Rails Guides
• UUID Primary Keys - Rails Guides
• Migrate table from integer to UUID primary key

[adrienpoly]

Rather than uuid have you considered https://github.com/excid3/prefixed_ids ?

I like this Stripe like obfuscated ids

[joemasilotti]

I love Stripe's obfuscated IDs but I don't see the value in a project that doesn't have a real developer API. Said another way, what's the benefit of a developer having an ID of dev_abc123 vs. abc_123 if the only place you ever see it is in the URL of a developer's profile page?

[joemasilotti]

Thanks for bringing this up @adrienpoly. I ended up opening a PR with what prefixed_ids uses under the hood, hashid. I was worried about not being able to salt prefixed_ids which would make it easy to guess URLs. Which kind of defeats the purpose of this task!