Module: Plate::URLHelper

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Defined in:
lib/plate/helpers/url_helper.rb

Overview

Includes basic helpers for managing URLs within your site.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#absolutize_paths(content) ⇒ Object Also known as: a

replace all relative links within the given content block to absolute links containing the base url for this site.

This is useful in creating RSS and/or Atom feeds that you’d like to contain links back to your site.

href or src values that don’t start with a slash are left intact.

Examples:

<a href="/posts/one"><img src="/images/sample.jpg"></a>

<!-- turns into: -->

<a href="http://example.com/posts/one"><img src="http://example.com/images/sample.jpg"></a>


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# File 'lib/plate/helpers/url_helper.rb', line 18

def absolutize_paths(content)
  content.gsub(Regexp.new("(src|href)=(\"|')/"), "\\1=\\2#{site.url}/")
end

#sanitize_slug(str) ⇒ Object Also known as: s

Cleans up a string to make it URl-friendly, removing all special characters, spaces, and sanitizing to a dashed, lowercase string.



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# File 'lib/plate/helpers/url_helper.rb', line 25

def sanitize_slug(str)
  self.site.sanitize_slug(str)
end