gr_autolink¶ ↑

• github.com/goodreads/gr_autolink

This is an adaptation of the extraction of the ‘auto_link` method from rails that is the rails_autolink gem. The `auto_link` method was removed from Rails in version Rails 3.1. This gem is meant to bridge the gap for people migrating…and behaves a little differently from the parent gem we forked from:

• performs html-escaping of characters such as ‘&’ in strings that are getting linkified if the incoming string is not html_safe?

• retains html-safety of incoming string (if input string is unsafe, will return unsafe and vice versa)

• fixes at least one bug: (<img src=“some.u.rl”> => <img src=“<a href=”some.u.rl“>some.u.rl</a>”>) though can’t imagine this is intended behavior, also have trouble believing that this was an open bug in rails…

By default gr_autolink returns retains html-safeness of input strings.

This is original gem’s behavior and this gem does NOT include this behavior:

• This behaviour can be overriden setting the :sanitize option to false

(thus making it insecure if you don’t have the content under control).

require 'rails_autolink'

auto_link("Go to http://www.rubyonrails.org and say hello to david@loudthinking.com")
# => "Go to <a href=\"http://www.rubyonrails.org\">http://www.rubyonrails.org</a> and
#     say hello to <a href=\"mailto:david@loudthinking.com\">david@loudthinking.com</a>"

auto_link("Visit http://www.loudthinking.com/ or e-mail david@loudthinking.com", :link => :urls)
# => "Visit <a href=\"http://www.loudthinking.com/\">http://www.loudthinking.com/</a>
#     or e-mail david@loudthinking.com"

auto_link("Visit http://www.loudthinking.com/ or e-mail david@loudthinking.com", :link => :email_addresses)
# => "Visit http://www.loudthinking.com/ or e-mail <a href=\"mailto:david@loudthinking.com\">david@loudthinking.com</a>"

auto_link("Go to http://www.rubyonrails.org <script>Malicious code!</script>")
# => "Go to <a href=\"http://www.rubyonrails.org\">http://www.rubyonrails.org</a> "

auto_link("Go to http://www.rubyonrails.org <script>alert('Script!')</script>", :sanitize => false)
# => "Go to <a href=\"http://www.rubyonrails.org\">http://www.rubyonrails.org</a> <script>alert('Script!')</script>"

post_body = "Welcome to my new blog at http://www.myblog.com/.  Please e-mail me at me@email.com."
auto_link(post_body, :html => { :target => '_blank' }) do |text|
  truncate(text, :length => 15)
end
# => "Welcome to my new blog at <a href=\"http://www.myblog.com/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.m...</a>.

• rails ~> 3.1

• gem install gr_autolink

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