String.to_permalink

Posted on July 7th, 2007 by Alex Gorbatchev. In Ruby. No comments yet...

Converts a string to a URL style permalink.

class String
  def to_permalink
    s = self
    s = Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', s).to_s
    s.gsub!(/^\W+|\W+$/, '')
    s.gsub!(/\W+/, '-')
    s.strip!
    s.downcase!
    s.squeeze!(' ')
    s.gsub(/\ +/, '-')
  end
end

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