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-rw-r--r--app/helpers/link_to_helper.rb4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/app/helpers/link_to_helper.rb b/app/helpers/link_to_helper.rb
index b621916b7..24ee8e578 100644
--- a/app/helpers/link_to_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/link_to_helper.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
# Copyright (c) 2007 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved.
# Email: francis@mysociety.org; WWW: http://www.mysociety.org/
#
-# $Id: link_to_helper.rb,v 1.1 2007-11-01 05:35:43 francis Exp $
+# $Id: link_to_helper.rb,v 1.2 2007-11-06 16:05:29 francis Exp $
module LinkToHelper
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ module LinkToHelper
# XXX See controllers/user_controller.rb controllers/body_controller.rb for inverse
# XXX consolidate somehow with stuff in helpers/application_helper.rb
def simplify_url_part(text)
- text.downcase!
+ text = text.downcase # this also clones the string, if we use downcase! we modify the original
text.gsub!(/ /, "-")
text.gsub!(/[^a-z0-9_-]/, "")
text