h1. ChinesePermalink This plugin adds a capability for ar model to create a seo permalink with your chinese text. It will translate your chinese text to english url based on google translate. The permalink will be composed of id and the english value translated from chinese text. For exmpale, title of post is '我是中国人', permalink of post is '1-i-am-a-chinese' *************************************************************************** h2. Install

sudo gem install chinese_permalink

*************************************************************************** h2. Example *1. Define chinese_permalink to model*


class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  # create permalink by chinese title, default permalink column is "permalink"
  chinese_permalink :title
end


class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  # create permalink by chinese category and title
  chinese_permalink [:category, :title]
end


class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  # create permalink by chinese title, store permalink to column "slug_url"
  chinese_permalink :title, :permalink_field => :slug_url
end

*2. Generate migration*

script/generate chinese_permalink_migration (table name) (permalink column name)

For example:

script/generate chinese_permalink_migration posts

script/generate chinese_permalink_migration posts slug_url

*3. Define ar to_param method*


class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  def to_param
    "#{id}-#{permalink}"
  end
end

************************************************************************** h2. Advance You can add before_methods and after_methods to meet your business, for example:


class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  chinese_permalink :title, :before_methods => :parse_c_sharp

  def parse_c_sharp(permalink)
    permalink.gsub('C#', 'c-sharp')
  end
end

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  chinese_permalink :title, :after_methods => :parse_pg

  def parse_pg(permalink)
    permalink.gsub('Procter & Gamble', 'pg')
  end
end