module HtmlHelper def format_html(html) fragment = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(html) auto_link(fragment) fragment.to_html.html_safe end private EXCLUDED_ELEMENTS = %w[ a figcaption pre code ] EMAIL_REGEXP = /\b[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*\b/ URL_REGEXP = URI::DEFAULT_PARSER.make_regexp(%w[http https]) def auto_link(fragment) fragment.traverse do |node| next unless auto_linkable_node?(node) content = node.text linked_content = content.dup auto_link_urls(linked_content) auto_link_emails(linked_content) if linked_content != content node.replace(Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(linked_content)) end end end def auto_linkable_node?(node) node.text? && node.ancestors.none? { |ancestor| EXCLUDED_ELEMENTS.include?(ancestor.name) } end def auto_link_urls(linked_content) linked_content.gsub!(URL_REGEXP) do |match| url, trailing_punct = extract_url_and_punctuation(match) %(#{url}#{trailing_punct}) end end def extract_url_and_punctuation(url_match) if url_match.end_with?(".", "?", ",", ":") [ url_match[..-2], url_match[-1] ] else [ url_match, "" ] end end def auto_link_emails(text) text.gsub!(EMAIL_REGEXP) do |match| %(#{match}) end end end