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monster Aug 1, 2006

I don't think I am doing anything different... Do we need to code the web addresses to be hyperlinks?

iwz Aug 1, 2006

yeah, i haven't added in a parser yet, so if you want to make a link, use HTML <a href="http://whatever">click here linky link</a>

deanh77 Aug 15, 2006

no need for a parser. rails has a method "linkify" so like: <%= linkify comment.text %> instead of <%= comment.text %>

iwz Aug 15, 2006

ah! that's nice. that's a great quick fix. i'll get it in ASAP. i've been looking into implementing RedCloth or BlueCloth. their markup languages seem pretty nice. ideally, i'd like to get th...

deanh77 Aug 15, 2006

apparently I just imagined this method, I can't seem to find it anywhere. weird....

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monsterEst. 2006

hmmm... looks like it should be there...

Contrast this to the way Ruby on Rails handles templating logic. In essence, it /does/ have a templating language - it just so happens that this language is Ruby as well. What's really smart is that Rails makes use of Ruby's syntactic flexibility to create a domain specific language (or mini language) adapted to the needs of templates. Built in functions are provided like h() (for HTML escaping) and linkify() (for auto-marking-up links). Because Ruby lets you omit parentheses, you end up with template code looking like this:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/ruby_on_rails_a.html

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