How do you remove special characters before uploading a file in Rails?

Question

I'm using Carrierwave x Rails. Basically, I'm facing some problems with Amazon S3 string matching & I think it would just be easier to remove all the special characters, such as brackets & accents, (and spaces) before uploading the file.

So, what I'd like to know is how do you remove special characters from a file's filename before uploading the file in rails?

Thank you in advance

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Solved. For anyone else who's facing the same or similar problem, read my solution in my answer below. Cheers :)

Answer 1

Check out the parameterize method here.