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Hey Everyone. First day diving in to ROR and Ruby... My question is how do you define methods with in the model class and/or should I even be doing this? It is my understanding that you should put as much of the business logic into the model as possible. I want to do some data manipulation before I things are submitted to the database IE (Create a variable out of two submitted via form, as

I need to make some nicenames from my post titles, like: - convert spaces to "-" - delete all the !,?,commas,.,;.:,* from the string How can I do? Sorry for the noob question... Oh, and another thing... How can I make permalink this way: Not .../blog/show/4 but .../category/nicename ? Thankyou. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.