I want to replace all the - in the topic title with a single space. this command will do it for all the posts, how can I change it so that only a topic-title get affected? rake posts:remap["-"," "]

Here’s my try. It’s not tested, so please backup first! I don’t know how this interacts with “encoded”. Perhaps that means that dashes are encoded as something other than a -. If that’s the case, you’ll need to modify things accordingly. Topic.where("title LIKE '%-%'").find_each do |topic| topic…

How to replace a string/character in topic title?

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How to replace a string/character in topic title?

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