Method: PermalinkFu.escape

Defined in:
lib/permalink_fu.rb

.escape(str) ⇒ Object

This method does the actual permalink escaping.



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# File 'lib/permalink_fu.rb', line 21

def escape(str)
  s = ClassMethods.decode(str)#.force_encoding("UTF-8")
  s.gsub!(/[^\x00-\x7F]+/, '') # Remove anything non-ASCII entirely (e.g. diacritics).
  s.gsub!(/[^\w_ \-]+/i,   '') # Remove unwanted chars.
  s.gsub!(/[ \-]+/i,      '-') # No more than one of the separator in a row.
  s.gsub!(/^\-|\-$/i,      '') # Remove leading/trailing separator.
  s.downcase!
  s.size == 0 ? ClassMethods.random_permalink(str) : s
end