Class: String

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/string.rb

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# File 'lib/string.rb', line 2

def to_permalink(max_length: nil, separator: "-")
  text = self.dup

  text = ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate(text)  # convert to simplified characters
  text = text.downcase.strip                           # make the string lowercase and scrub white space on either side
  text = text.gsub(/[^a-z0-9]/, separator)             # make any character that is not nupermic or alphabetic into a special character
  text = text.squeeze(separator)                       # removes any consecutive duplicates of the special character
  text = text.sub(Regexp.new("^#{ separator }+"), "")  # remove leading special characters
  text = text.sub(Regexp.new("#{ separator }+$"), "")  # remove trailing special characters
  text = text[0...max_length] if max_length            # trim to length

  text
end