urlize Plugin
New rails plugin that I have been using in production code for a while was just posted to GitHub. It reformats any string into a permalink style that is suitable for use in a URL. For example...
"Page Test #1".urlize
>> "page-test-1"
http://github.com/ctcherry/urlizeI'm sure there is stuff wrong with it, so patches and pull requests are always welcome!
UPDATE: ActiveSupport has a method called parameterize that does this
