Escape forward slash in Ruby url helper

Question

I'm trying to setup a very basic id="thisFileName" in my staticMatic project.

So far I've managed to apply the following to an /index.html (the HAML output):

- @slug = current_page.gsub(/\.html/, '')

Which returns "/index". However - I'd like to remove the / at the start so that it reads /index...

Any tips or directions for where I should get advice on how best to do this would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

To delete the beginning "/" after you've stripped the html simply execute this (which will do both in one command):

current_page.gsub(/\.html/, '').gsub(/\//,''))