Textilize and Markdown and URLs

[Robert C. Mannl]

Hi!


I'm stumped, maybe someone can explain this to me:

Neither Textilize nor Markdown seem to turn plain old URLs into links.

That is, I can use their proprietary Syntax to create a link, e.g.:
"Google":http://google.com, but I can't just write http://google.com.
That'll stay unlinked text.


Any ideas why that is? This must have been a deliberate choice, but
why it is, I can't figure out.


I'll probably just code a wrapper function that parses the URLs after
markdown did it's thing.



Thanks,

Rob

 

[James Britt]

Try the auto_link() helper method:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000426

Install Rails just to get RedCloth or BlueCloth to link some text?

Seems there would be a simpler way.


James

 

[Robert C. Mannl]

I'm actually using Rails. I just asked this here because I thought
the maintainers of those two libraries might be frequenting this ML.

I really just wondered why both RedCloth and BlueCloth don't do that
(turn urls into links). If anyone knows, I'm still interested to hear
why that is.


But I'm using markdown(auto_link(text)) now, so problem solved
Thanks for the tip Mr Long


Rob

 

[Gabe Boyer]

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[Donkey Agony]

Neither Textilize nor Markdown seem to turn plain old URLs into links.

That is, I can use their proprietary Syntax to create a link, e.g.:
"Google":http://google.com, but I can't just write http://google.com.
That'll stay unlinked text.

Don't know about Textile, but Markdown understands the "angle-bracket
convention" of writing URLs in emails, i.e. http://google.com will give
you an html `<a href=...`. Leaving out the angle-brackets leaves it as
a naked URL.

 

[Donkey Agony]

Don't know about Textile, but Markdown understands the "angle-bracket
convention" of writing URLs in emails, i.e. http://google.com will
give you an html `<a href=...`. Leaving out the angle-brackets
leaves it as a naked URL.

Aghh, newsreaders. That link above was typed in as
[angle-bracket]http://google.com[/angle-bracket], but this brain-dead
newsreader thought it knew better what I wanted and changed it.

How about

< http://google.com >

(but remove the spaces before and after the URL).