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Martin Labuschin http://labuschin.com

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Create strings for SEO-friendly URLs

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
to ruby rails string url seo lowercase friendly hyphen by labuschin on Sep 27, 2007

Elegant way of shorten a text string

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
to ruby rails string text word words scope short shorten plain by labuschin on Sep 27, 2007 1 Comments

automate linking to Twitter users

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, '<a href="http://twitter.com/' + user + '">' + user + '</a>')
	end
	txt
end
to ruby rails link user twitter auto_link by labuschin on Sep 27, 2007 1 Comments
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