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-rw-r--r--actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb
index b97b1e130a..aa4d3ab8af 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb
@@ -90,11 +90,24 @@ module ActionView
# Returns the text with all the Markdown codes turned into HTML-tags.
# <i>This method is only available if BlueCloth can be required</i>.
def markdown(text)
- text.empty? ? "" : BlueCloth.new(text).to_html
+ text.blank? ? "" : BlueCloth.new(text).to_html
end
rescue LoadError
# We can't really help what's not there
end
+
+ # Returns +text+ transformed into html using very simple formatting rules
+ # Surrounds paragraphs with <tt>&lt;p&gt;</tt> tags, and converts line breaks into <tt>&lt;br /&gt;</tt>
+ # Two consecutive newlines(<tt>\n\n</tt>) are considered as a paragraph, one newline (<tt>\n</tt>) is
+ # considered a linebreak, three or more consecutive newlines are turned into two newlines
+ def simple_format(text)
+ text.gsub!(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/, "\n") # lets make them newlines crossplatform
+ text.gsub!(/\n\n+/, "\n\n") # zap dupes
+ text.gsub!(/\n\n/, '</p>\0<p>') # turn two newlines into paragraph
+ text.gsub!(/([^\n])(\n)([^\n])/, '\1\2<br />\3') # turn single newline into <br />
+
+ return '<p>' + text + '</p>' # wrap the first and last line in paragraphs before we're done
+ end
# Turns all urls and email addresses into clickable links. The +link+ parameter can limit what should be linked.
# Options are :all (default), :email_addresses, and :urls.