> 1. Automatically create links for URL. > I'd like to be able to type in http://example.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and have a link created to it. If I use Textile, I need to do this as > "http://example.org":http://example.org - just wondering if there's a > tag I can use (else, I think I should just write it up). I think Rails > has a function called auto_link that can do this for text content - just > need to think about any vulnerabilities that this may have. I imagine > that this would only be a tag, no database backend needed. > > This sounds like a good candidate for a filter. You could probably harness the helper modules in ActionView to use auto_link or simple_format in a filter. > 2. Create links for known entities > It would be good to have a mechanism that automatically creates links to > known entities. For example, I'd like to set up SampleSite as being > http://example.org and then every time, I include SampleSite, it > automatically creates a link to http://example.org. I don't want it to > be automatic (so we don't need to parse all the text) - it's good enough > if I have to pass the name to a tag. I imagine that this would be 2 > parts - 1 part would be a tab in the admin section allowing the user to > set up any of the pre-defined entities (I think the link_roll extension > points in the correct direction) and then a tag that allows the user to > get back the link. > > This sounds like an extension... take a look at the wiki on How to Create an Extension. It explains how to create a LinkRoll, but the concepts are very similar.
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