SlugUtils

SlugUtils is a Ruby module for generating clean, SEO-friendly slugs from multi-language text (Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, etc.). It also provides a method to generate unique slugs to avoid duplicates.

Add the gem via Git:

gem "slug-utils", ~> "0.1.1"

Then run:

bundle install

Default ASCII (Latin only, accents removed):

SlugUtils.generate("Học Ruby on Rails 2025!")
# => "hoc-ruby-on-rails-2025"

Multi-language with Unicode (keep accents):

SlugUtils.generate("Bài viết mới 新しい記事", keep_accents: true)
# => "bài-viết-mới-新しい記事"

Multi-language ASCII (kanji/kana removed):

SlugUtils.generate("Bài viết mới 新しい記事")
# => "bai-viet-moi"

Automatically append -1, -2, … if the slug already exists:

SlugUtils.generate_unique("Bài viết mới", existing: ["bai-viet-moi", "bai-viet-moi-1"])
# => "bai-viet-moi-2"

SlugUtils.generate(nil)
# => raise SlugUtils::InvalidText

SlugUtils.generate("   ")
# => raise SlugUtils::InvalidText

• keep_accents: true → preserves all Unicode characters, including Latin letters with accents, kana, kanji, Chinese, Korean, etc.
• keep_accents: false → ASCII-friendly, only converts Latin letters (kana/kanji are removed if no external gem is used)
• generate_unique ensures the slug is unique when saving to the database or an array