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Create strings for SEO-friendly URLs

labuschin (Martin Labuschin) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:53:58 GMT

this method returns string, which is perfect for SEO-friendly URLs.

features:
- converts every improper character to a hyphen
- returns a lowercase string

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def create_callname (title)

	title.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z0-9]+/i, '-')

end

Elegant way of shorten a text string

labuschin (Martin Labuschin) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:47:15 GMT

this method shortens a plain text string down to complete words contained in given scope (count)



def shorten (string, count = 30)

	if string.length >= count 

		shortened = string[0, count]

		splitted = shortened.split(/\s/)

		words = splitted.length

		splitted[0, words-1].join(" ") + ' ...'

	else 

		string

	end

end

automate linking to Twitter users

labuschin (Martin Labuschin) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:36:39 GMT

this method searches for @some_user in a string (txt) and links found matches to the twitter-page of some_user



def link_twitter_user(txt)

	if match = txt.match(/.*?(@)((?:[a-z][a-z]+))(:|\s)/i)

		user = match[2]

		txt.gsub!(user, '' + user + '')

	end

	txt

end