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    <title>DZone Snippets: friendly code</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:37:04 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>DZone Snippets: friendly code</description>
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      <title>Create strings for SEO-friendly URLs</title>
      <link>http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4579</link>
      <description>this method returns string, which is perfect for SEO-friendly URLs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;features: &lt;br /&gt;- converts every improper character to a hyphen&lt;br /&gt;- returns a lowercase string&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I POSTED AN EVEN BETTER METHOD ON MY BLOG: http://tinyurl.com/2vurbq&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;def create_callname (title)&lt;br /&gt;	title.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z0-9]+/i, '-')&lt;br /&gt;end&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:53:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4579</guid>
      <author>labuschin (Martin Labuschin)</author>
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