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Posted by Melissa Sieffert
Melissa Sieffert
1,806 Points

Hyperlink word inside a “Post” text field in Rails 4

I am building a blog and looking for a way to hyperlink words in my posts. I have used auto_html for videos and photos, but I do not like the aesthetics of the links as they must contain the http:// in order to be recognized by the gem.

Does anyone know of a gem, a way to insert HTML into the "Post" text field, or code i can add to my post.rb model to hyperlink words?

1 Answer

Jesse Fisher
Jesse Fisher
10,830 Points

Here are two ideas...

If you want to use HTML in your Post field, use the html_safe method.

Put something like this in your views:

  <%= @post.body.html_safe =>

Another idea is to use Markdown for writing your blog posts. It is a bit more work to get Markdown rendering working, but if you like writing in Markdown - it is well worth it.

There is a succinct tutorial for using Markdown in Rails at this location: http://richonrails.com/articles/rendering-markdown-with-redcarpet

I have not completed the Markdown tutorial, but I skimmed through it and it looks accurate. If you decide to go that route, and get stuck, I'd be happy to try and help.