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auto_link

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auto_link(text, link = :all, href_options = {}, &block) public

Turns all urls and email addresses into clickable links. The link parameter will limit what should be linked. You can add html attributes to the links using href_options. Options for link are :all (default), :email_addresses, and :urls.

  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>

If a block is given, each url and email address is yielded and the result is used as the link text.

  auto_link(post.body, :all, :target => '_blank') do |text|
    truncate(text, 15)
  end

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# File actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb, line 178
      def auto_link(text, link = :all, href_options = {}, &block)
        return '' if text.blank?
        case link
          when :all             then auto_link_urls(auto_link_email_addresses(text, &block), href_options, &block)
          when :email_addresses then auto_link_email_addresses(text, &block)
          when :urls            then auto_link_urls(text, href_options, &block)
        end
      end

August 6, 2009

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Documentation bug

When adding the :target option, the documentation states that you should user :href_options like so:

auto_link(post_body, :href_options => { :target => '_blank' })

However, I could only get it to work using :html instead:

auto_link(post_body, :html => { :target => '_blank' })

I’m using Rails 2.2.2, but I believe that this also happens for more recent version .

November 6, 2011 - (>= v3.1.0)

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Removed in 3.1.x

This method (and #auto_link_urls) has been removed in Rails 3.1 - other options are out there, such as Rinku, however there is a gem you can use for migration purposes etc, which is rails_autolink: http://rubygems.org/gems/rails_autolink

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Documentation bug

Removed in 3.1.x