From 8a88e71b3cedf9374eea44b7b14d7a3be41b1a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Lalonde <neillalonde@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:50:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] FEATURE: permalinks lookup table can redirect to any
 arbitrary url

---
 app/models/permalink.rb                       | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 ...008152953_add_exernal_url_to_permalinks.rb |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 db/migrate/20141008152953_add_exernal_url_to_permalinks.rb

diff --git a/app/models/permalink.rb b/app/models/permalink.rb
index d0d06e1f0..a216814fc 100644
--- a/app/models/permalink.rb
+++ b/app/models/permalink.rb
@@ -13,9 +13,28 @@ class Permalink < ActiveRecord::Base
   end
 
   def target_url
+    return external_url if external_url
     return post.url if post
     return topic.relative_url if topic
     return category.url if category
     nil
   end
 end
+
+# == Schema Information
+#
+# Table name: permalinks
+#
+#  id           :integer          not null, primary key
+#  url          :string(1000)     not null
+#  topic_id     :integer
+#  post_id      :integer
+#  category_id  :integer
+#  created_at   :datetime
+#  updated_at   :datetime
+#  external_url :string(1000)
+#
+# Indexes
+#
+#  index_permalinks_on_url  (url) UNIQUE
+#
diff --git a/db/migrate/20141008152953_add_exernal_url_to_permalinks.rb b/db/migrate/20141008152953_add_exernal_url_to_permalinks.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0ec67837
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20141008152953_add_exernal_url_to_permalinks.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class AddExernalUrlToPermalinks < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    add_column :permalinks, :external_url, :string, limit: 1000
+  end
+end