From: "John W. Long" <ng@...>
Date: 2006-01-27T08:32:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Textilize and Markdown and URLs

 > I'll probably just code a wrapper function that parses the URLs after
 > markdown did it's thing.

Try the auto_link() helper method:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000426

I noticed this today while reading through the docs on helper methods. 
There were quite a few I didn't know about.

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John Long
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