From: Henrik Nyh <henrik@...>
Date: 2008-10-09T08:09:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Auto-recognize links?

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Ted Han <notheory@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Interesting, did not know that. Seems bad though:
URI.extract("Visit http://google.com/.")  # => ["http://google.com/."]

You could borrow code from Rails' auto_link() which handles that kind
of stuff better:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001737

> 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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