Friendly_id name not displaying in url – SEO

I have added the friendly_id gem to my application. The name attribute is not replacing the index in the URL.

Gem

gem 'friendly_id', '~> 5.1.0'

Migration

rails g migration add_slug_to_items slug:string

Migration File

class AddSlugToItems < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :items, :slug, :string
    add_index :items, :slug
  end
end

Controller

def show
  @searched_item = Item.friendly.find(params[:id])
end

View-Path

/views/items/show.html.erb

Routes

resources :items, only: [:new, :create, :update, :show]

Button generating URL

<%= link_to fr.name, item_path(fr.id, search_info: params), class:"searched_kennel_title_link default_green_color" %>

Model

  extend FriendlyId
  friendly_id :name, use: [:slugged, :finders]

  def should_generate_new_friendly_id?
    name_changed?
  end

This is a pre-existing application so I also ran:

 Item.find_each(&:save)

The strange part is that when the URL is generated it is originally: http://localhost:3000/items/1

When I manually change the URL to: http://localhost:3000/items/item-name it works.

Anyone have any idea why this would occur, or what I am missing?