Hi --
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Ben Knight wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> We have book titles as a column in our database, which I would like to
> use in our URLS for SEO purposes. Given that these are titles, they
> include characters other than alphabets and numbers (e.g. punctuation,
> blanks, foreign characters in some cases).
>
> What's the easiest way to do this? Here is some more information:
>
> Original string:
>
> On One Flower: Butterflies, Ticks and a Few More Icks
>
>
> What I would like to see:
>
> on-one-flower-butterflies-ticks-and-a-few-more-icks
>
>
> I'm currently doing something like this; is there a better way?
>
> title.squeeze.downcase.tr("(),? !':.[]", "-").gsub('--', '-')
Here's one possible technique:
title.downcase.gsub(/\W+/, '-')
\W does not include underscore (which is part of the \w class), so if
you want to translate underscores you would do:
/[\W_]+/
David
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