A quick and dirty script to take a list of files and clean them up for URLs

urlify.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

files = ARGV

DESTINATION_DIR = "./urlified"
GSUB_REPLACEMENTS = {
  strip_unallowed_characters: [/[^A-Za-z0-9_\-.]/, '-'],
  insert_dash_before_capitals: [/([^A-Z])([A-Z]+)/, '\1-\2'],
  replace_separators_with_dashes: [/(_|\s+)/, '-'],
  remove_duplicate_dashes: [/-+/, '-'],
  remove_beginning_and_trailing_dashes: [/(\A-|-(?=\.))/, ''],
}

if files.empty?
  puts "Usage: urlify <FILES>"
  puts "  urlify copies FILES and renames them to a dash style url friendly name."
  puts "  Files will be stored in a urlified/ directory within the pwd."
else
  `mkdir -p #{DESTINATION_DIR}`
  files.each do |file_pattern|
    Dir[file_pattern].each do |file|
      new_file = file.dup
      GSUB_REPLACEMENTS.each do |name, args|
        new_file.gsub!(*args)
      end
      new_file.downcase!
      puts "#{file} => #{DESTINATION_DIR}/#{new_file}"
      `cp "#{file}" "#{DESTINATION_DIR}/#{new_file}"`
    end
  end
end