您需要设置一个自定义路由，将URL指向将处理它的控制器。因为您使用的是Ruby on Rails，这里介绍一下如何使用他们的路由引擎。

在Ruby中，你需要一个你已经知道的正则表达式，下面是要使用的正则表达式:

def permalink_for(str)
    str.gsub(/[^\w\/]|[!\(\)\.]+/, ' ').strip.downcase.gsub(/\ +/, '-')
end

我不太了解Ruby或Rails，但在Perl中，这是我要做的:

my $title = "How do you change a title to be part of the url like Stackoverflow?";

my $url = lc $title;   # Change to lower case and copy to URL.
$url =~ s/^\s+//g;     # Remove leading spaces.
$url =~ s/\s+$//g;     # Remove trailing spaces.
$url =~ s/\s+/\-/g;    # Change one or more spaces to single hyphen.
$url =~ s/[^\w\-]//g;  # Remove any non-word characters.

print "$title\n$url\n";

我刚做了一个快速测试，似乎有用。希望这在Ruby中比较容易翻译。

我不熟悉Ruby on Rails，但以下是(未经测试的)PHP代码。如果您觉得有用的话，可以很快地将其转换为Ruby on Rails。

$sURL = "This is a title to convert to URL-format. It has 1 number in it!";
// To lower-case
$sURL = strtolower($sURL);

// Replace all non-word characters with spaces
$sURL = preg_replace("/\W+/", " ", $sURL);

// Remove trailing spaces (so we won't end with a separator)
$sURL = trim($sURL);

// Replace spaces with separators (hyphens)
$sURL = str_replace(" ", "-", $sURL);

echo $sURL;
// outputs: this-is-a-title-to-convert-to-url-format-it-has-1-number-in-it

我希望这能有所帮助。

如果你正在使用Rails edge，你可以依赖Inflector。参数化-下面是文档中的例子:

  class Person
    def to_param
      "#{id}-#{name.parameterize}"
    end
  end

  @person = Person.find(1)
  # => #<Person id: 1, name: "Donald E. Knuth">

  <%= link_to(@person.name, person_path(@person)) %>
  # => <a href="/person/1-donald-e-knuth">Donald E. Knuth</a>

另外，如果你需要在以前版本的Rails中处理更多的外来字符，比如重音(éphémère)，你可以混合使用PermalinkFu和DiacriticsFu:

DiacriticsFu::escape("éphémère")
=> "ephemere"

DiacriticsFu::escape("räksmörgås")
=> "raksmorgas"

为了更好地衡量，这里是WordPress中的PHP函数…我认为WordPress是使用花哨链接的最受欢迎的平台之一。

    function sanitize_title_with_dashes($title) {
            $title = strip_tags($title);
            // Preserve escaped octets.
            $title = preg_replace('|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|', '---$1---', $title);
            // Remove percent signs that are not part of an octet.
            $title = str_replace('%', '', $title);
            // Restore octets.
            $title = preg_replace('|---([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])---|', '%$1', $title);
            $title = remove_accents($title);
            if (seems_utf8($title)) {
                    if (function_exists('mb_strtolower')) {
                            $title = mb_strtolower($title, 'UTF-8');
                    }
                    $title = utf8_uri_encode($title, 200);
            }
            $title = strtolower($title);
            $title = preg_replace('/&.+?;/', '', $title); // kill entities
            $title = preg_replace('/[^%a-z0-9 _-]/', '', $title);
            $title = preg_replace('/\s+/', '-', $title);
            $title = preg_replace('|-+|', '-', $title);
            $title = trim($title, '-');
            return $title;
    }

这个函数以及一些支持函数可以在wp-includes/formatting.php中找到。

你也可以使用这个JavaScript函数在表单中生成鼻涕虫(这个是基于/从Django复制的):

function makeSlug(urlString, filter) {
    // Changes, e.g., "Petty theft" to "petty_theft".
    // Remove all these words from the string before URLifying

    if(filter) {
        removelist = ["a", "an", "as", "at", "before", "but", "by", "for", "from",
        "is", "in", "into", "like", "of", "off", "on", "onto", "per",
        "since", "than", "the", "this", "that", "to", "up", "via", "het", "de", "een", "en",
        "with"];
    }
    else {
        removelist = [];
    }
    s = urlString;
    r = new RegExp('\\b(' + removelist.join('|') + ')\\b', 'gi');
    s = s.replace(r, '');
    s = s.replace(/[^-\w\s]/g, ''); // Remove unneeded characters
    s = s.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // Trim leading/trailing spaces
    s = s.replace(/[-\s]+/g, '-'); // Convert spaces to hyphens
    s = s.toLowerCase(); // Convert to lowercase
    return s; // Trim to first num_chars characters
}