Use the friendly ID gem for contest slugs

config/initializers/friendly_id.rb

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+# FriendlyId Global Configuration
+#
+# Use this to set up shared configuration options for your entire application.
+# Any of the configuration options shown here can also be applied to single
+# models by passing arguments to the `friendly_id` class method or defining
+# methods in your model.
+#
+# To learn more, check out the guide:
+#
+# http://norman.github.io/friendly_id/file.Guide.html
+
+FriendlyId.defaults do |config|
+  # ## Reserved Words
+  #
+  # Some words could conflict with Rails's routes when used as slugs, or are
+  # undesirable to allow as slugs. Edit this list as needed for your app.
+  config.use :reserved
+
+  config.reserved_words = %w[new edit index session login logout users admin
+    stylesheets assets javascripts images]
+
+  # This adds an option to treat reserved words as conflicts rather than exceptions.
+  # When there is no good candidate, a UUID will be appended, matching the existing
+  # conflict behavior.
+
+  config.treat_reserved_as_conflict = true
+
+  #  ## Friendly Finders
+  #
+  # Uncomment this to use friendly finders in all models. By default, if
+  # you wish to find a record by its friendly id, you must do:
+  #
+  #    MyModel.friendly.find('foo')
+  #
+  # If you uncomment this, you can do:
+  #
+  #    MyModel.find('foo')
+  #
+  # This is significantly more convenient but may not be appropriate for
+  # all applications, so you must explicitly opt-in to this behavior. You can
+  # always also configure it on a per-model basis if you prefer.
+  #
+  # Something else to consider is that using the :finders addon boosts
+  # performance because it will avoid Rails-internal code that makes runtime
+  # calls to `Module.extend`.
+
+  config.use :finders
+
+  # ## Slugs
+  #
+  # Most applications will use the :slugged module everywhere. If you wish
+  # to do so, uncomment the following line.
+
+  config.use :slugged
+
+  # By default, FriendlyId's :slugged addon expects the slug column to be named
+  # 'slug', but you can change it if you wish.
+  #
+  # config.slug_column = 'slug'
+  #
+  # By default, slug has no size limit, but you can change it if you wish.
+  #
+  # config.slug_limit = 255
+  #
+  # When FriendlyId can not generate a unique ID from your base method, it appends
+  # a UUID, separated by a single dash. You can configure the character used as the
+  # separator. If you're upgrading from FriendlyId 4, you may wish to replace this
+  # with two dashes.
+  #
+  # config.sequence_separator = '-'
+  #
+  # Note that you must use the :slugged addon **prior** to the line which
+  # configures the sequence separator, or else FriendlyId will raise an undefined
+  # method error.
+  #
+  #  ## Tips and Tricks
+  #
+  #  ### Controlling when slugs are generated
+  #
+  # As of FriendlyId 5.0, new slugs are generated only when the slug field is
+  # nil, but if you're using a column as your base method can change this
+  # behavior by overriding the `should_generate_new_friendly_id?` method that
+  # FriendlyId adds to your model. The change below makes FriendlyId 5.0 behave
+  # more like 4.0.
+  # Note: Use(include) Slugged module in the config if using the anonymous module.
+  # If you have `friendly_id :name, use: slugged` in the model, Slugged module
+  # is included after the anonymous module defined in the initializer, so it
+  # overrides the `should_generate_new_friendly_id?` method from the anonymous module.
+  #
+  # config.use :slugged
+  # config.use Module.new {
+  #   def should_generate_new_friendly_id?
+  #     slug.blank? || <your_column_name_here>_changed?
+  #   end
+  # }
+  #
+  # FriendlyId uses Rails's `parameterize` method to generate slugs, but for
+  # languages that don't use the Roman alphabet, that's not usually sufficient.
+  # Here we use the Babosa library to transliterate Russian Cyrillic slugs to
+  # ASCII. If you use this, don't forget to add "babosa" to your Gemfile.
+  #
+  # config.use Module.new {
+  #   def normalize_friendly_id(text)
+  #     text.to_slug.normalize! :transliterations => [:russian, :latin]
+  #   end
+  # }
+end