On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Jatin kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Pale Horse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The application I'm currently working on has a Glossary model. The >>> Glossary table has columns for the term and its definition. >>> >>> The application also has Pages which have content. The content needs to >>> highlight any words that match a term in the Glossary table. >>> >>> Why are you using the server to do this, when you could use client > processor to do the matching for you. > NOTE: > He just wants to highlight them and not show them as links. > > If it had been links, I would have completely agreed with your approach. > > I'm assuming that he wants to link them because I think there's no use just highlighting them. > There'll be a few ways to do this but I'd appreciate your advice on the >>> way you'd accomplish this. >>> >>> >> create a helper that would parse the content of the page and would auto >> link >> if a certain term corresponds to a glossary record. >> >> if the pages are gonna be hit quite a lot, i suggest caching the list of >> words so >> you minimize the number of hits to the db. >> >> >> >>> -- >>> >>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
