Best way to generate slugs (human-readable IDs) in Rails

Question

You know, like myblog.com/posts/donald-e-knuth.

Should I do this with the built in parameterize method?

What about a plugin? I could imagine a plugin being n

Answer 1

The main issue for my apps has been the apostrophes - rarely do you want the -s sitting out there on it's own.

class String

  def to_slug
    self.gsub(/['`]/, "").parameterize
  end

end