gistfile1.rb

class String
  def to_slug
    s = self.gsub(/&/, 'and')                               # replace ampersand chars with 'and' before stripping HTML
    s.gsub!(/<.*?>/, '')                                        # strip HTML
    s.gsub!(/&/, 'and')                                         # replace ampersand chars with 'and'
    s = Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', s).to_s # Borrowed partially from Technoweenie's PermalinkFu
    s.gsub!(/\W+/, ' ')                                         # all non-word chars to spaces
    s.strip!
    s.downcase!
    s.gsub!(/[\W^-_]+/, '-')                                    # replace non-word chars with dashes
    s.gsub!(/\-{2}/, '-')                                       # remove double dashes
    s
  end
end