From: Ted Han <notheory@...>
Date: 2008-10-09T07:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Auto-recognize links?

I think everything you'd need to do to validate and produce links should 
be in the core URI class: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/URI.html

Josh Pigford wrote:
> In PHP I've got a few functions that will turn data into links based on
> if it recognizes "http://", "www." etc etc.
> 
> How can I do this with Ruby?
> 
> For instance, in a forums setting if a user posted a link to something
> like http://example.com
> 
> It'd basically turn it into a clickable link:
> &lt;a
> href=&quot;http://example.com&quot;&gt;http://example.com&lt;/a&gt;

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