Ruby - rails - how to create automatic hyperlinks for urls in the text/string rendered on the view?
ruby, ruby-on-rails-3
Solution
Use auto_link like this:
<%= auto_link(text) %>
If you want the generated links to open new browser windows (or tabs) add the option like so:
<%= auto_link(text, :html => { :target => '_blank' }) %>
As mentioned by pjumble in the comments, `auto_link` is no longer a part of Rails core as of Rails 3.1, this gem brings it back: https://github.com/tenderlove/rails_autolink Thanks pjumble!
Problem
How to create automatic hyperlinks for urls in the text/string rendered on the view? I have a page that renders user activity log and in that log/text/string there are some random urls which I want to automatically hyperlink to open in a new browser window. There is this `auto_link` in ruby rails, how do I use that? ``` text = "User xyz accessed url - http://www.something.com on 04/13/2012 00:13:18GMT" <%= "#{Text}" %> ``` I want this rendered with a hyperlink to the url. The URL could be anything anywhere in the text.