From: "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
Date: 2008-10-11T05:57:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Auto-recognize links?

On Oct 8, 6:09 pm, Henrik Nyh <hen...@nyh.se> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Ted Han <nothe...@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("Visithttp://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...
>
>
>
> > 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
> >> likehttp://example.com
>
> >> It'd basically turn it into a clickable link:
> >> &lt;a
> >> href=&quot;http://example.com">http://example.com</a>
>
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Have you looked at hpricot