[LRUG] Ruby and URLs

[Kenneth Lee]

Excellent suggestions, might be time to do some forking :P

Thanks a bunch.

Paul Campbell wrote:
> Domainatrix is pretty sweet:
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> http://github.com/pauldix/domainatrix
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> and I believe Rails 3's implementation of auto_link is much better
> than 2.x ... Tom Preston Werner linked up a back port:
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> http://gist.github.com/358471
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> —P
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Kenneth Lee<kenfodder at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Quite a few projects I've worked on I've had to convert URLs with flat text
>> to links in HTML. But every time the implementation feels inadequate with
>> some ridiculous regex that isn't bundled with a spec to test against.
>>
>> Is there a Gem or library that will allow me to do this easily and in a
>> reusable way. If so I will go into banana dance mode!
>>
>> Ideally I want to simply gem install something, then in simply do
>> linkify(sometext) possible with a block to customize the replacement for
>> html classes etc... and some config or options to say whether the http(s)
>> part must exist, must have this set of subdomains, must not be a top-level,
>> all these fancy options to correctly match it.
>>
>> I'm getting this itch to write a library like this but surely it's done?!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ken
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