Class: String

Inherits:
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Defined in:
lib/zwite/ext/string.rb

Constant Summary collapse

SLUGIFY_SEPARATORS = 
%w[- _ +]

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#slugify(separator = "-") ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/zwite/ext/string.rb', line 5

def slugify(separator = "-")
 unless SLUGIFY_SEPARATORS.include?(separator)
   raise "Word separator must be one of #{SLUGIFY_SEPARATORS}"
 end
 re_separator = Regexp.escape(separator)
 result = self.dup
 result.gsub!(/[^\x00-\x7F]+/, '')                      # Remove non-ASCII (e.g. diacritics).
 result.gsub!(/[^a-z0-9\-_\+]+/i, separator)            # Turn non-slug chars into the separator.
 result.gsub!(/#{re_separator}{2,}/, separator)         # No more than one of the separator in a row.
 result.gsub!(/^#{re_separator}|#{re_separator}$/, '')  # Remove leading/trailing separator.
 result.downcase!
 return result
end