Replace umlaute (äüö) for SEO link in rails - best way
I'm using the permalink_fu plugin to create permalinks from titles. My problem is: If the title contains german characters, they are just replaced with '_'. What I need is something that replaces ä with ae ü with ue ö with oe I fount String.tr but the problem here is that it replaces 1 character with 1 replacement, so it would work for replacing é with e ø with o etc. Does anyone have a nice and clean solution for that? Thanks David Schmitt Use String.gsub() : "ich bin doch nicht blöd, mann!".gsub(/[äöü]/) do |match| case match when "ä" 'ae' when "ö" 'oe' when "ü" 'ue' end end Of course, the