DZone Snippets: auto_link code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:35:56 GMT DZone Snippets: auto_link code automate linking to Twitter users http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4577 this method searches for @some_user in a string (txt) and links found matches to the twitter-page of some_user <br /> <br /><code> <br />def link_twitter_user(txt) <br /> if match = txt.match(/.*?(@)((?:[a-z][a-z]+))(:|\s)/i) <br /> user = match[2] <br /> txt.gsub!(user, '<a href="http://twitter.com/' + user + '">' + user + '</a>') <br /> end <br /> txt <br />end <br /></code> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:36:39 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4577 labuschin (Martin Labuschin)