Module: ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper

Defined in:
lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb

Overview

The TextHelper module provides a set of methods for filtering, formatting and transforming strings, which can reduce the amount of inline Ruby code in your views. These helper methods extend ActionView making them callable within your template files.

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Cycle

Constant Summary collapse 

%r{
 (                          # leading text
   <\w+.*?>|                # leading HTML tag, or
   [^=!:'"/]|               # leading punctuation, or
   ^                        # beginning of line
 )
 (
   (?:https?://)|           # protocol spec, or
   (?:www\.)                # www.*
 )
 (
   [-\w]+                   # subdomain or domain
   (?:\.[-\w]+)*            # remaining subdomains or domain
   (?::\d+)?                # port
   (?:/(?:(?:[~\w\+@%=\(\)-]|(?:[,.;:'][^\s$]))+)?)* # path
   (?:\?[\w\+@%&=.;-]+)?     # query string
   (?:\#[\w\-]*)?           # trailing anchor
 )
 ([[:punct:]]|<|$|)       # trailing text
}x

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

Turns all URLs and e-mail addresses into clickable links. The link parameter will limit what should be linked. You can add HTML attributes to the links using href_options. Options for link are :all (default), :email_addresses, and :urls. If a block is given, each URL and e-mail address is yielded and the result is used as the link text.

Examples

auto_link("Go to http://www.rubyonrails.org and say hello to [email protected]")
# => "Go to <a href=\"http://www.rubyonrails.org\">http://www.rubyonrails.org</a> and
#     say hello to <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a>"

auto_link("Visit http://www.loudthinking.com/ or e-mail [email protected]", :urls)
# => "Visit <a href=\"http://www.loudthinking.com/\">http://www.loudthinking.com/</a>
#     or e-mail [email protected]"

auto_link("Visit http://www.loudthinking.com/ or e-mail [email protected]", :email_addresses)
# => "Visit http://www.loudthinking.com/ or e-mail <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a>"

post_body = "Welcome to my new blog at http://www.myblog.com/.  Please e-mail me at [email protected]."
auto_link(post_body, :all, :target => '_blank') do |text|
  truncate(text, 15)
end
# => "Welcome to my new blog at <a href=\"http://www.myblog.com/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.m...</a>.
      Please e-mail me at <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a>."



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 335

def auto_link(text, link = :all, href_options = {}, &block)
  return '' if text.blank?
  case link
    when :all             then auto_link_email_addresses(auto_link_urls(text, href_options, &block), &block)
    when :email_addresses then auto_link_email_addresses(text, &block)
    when :urls            then auto_link_urls(text, href_options, &block)
  end
end

#concat(string, binding) ⇒ Object

The preferred method of outputting text in your views is to use the <%= “text” %> eRuby syntax. The regular puts and print methods do not operate as expected in an eRuby code block. If you absolutely must output text within a non-output code block (i.e., <% %>), you can use the concat method.

Examples

<%
    concat "hello", binding
    # is the equivalent of <%= "hello" %>

    if (logged_in == true):
      concat "Logged in!", binding
    else
      concat link_to('login', :action => login), binding
    end
    # will either display "Logged in!" or a login link
%>



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 28

def concat(string, binding)
  eval(ActionView::Base.erb_variable, binding) << string
end

#cycle(first_value, *values) ⇒ Object

Creates a Cycle object whose to_s method cycles through elements of an array every time it is called. This can be used for example, to alternate classes for table rows. You can use named cycles to allow nesting in loops. Passing a Hash as the last parameter with a :name key will create a named cycle. You can manually reset a cycle by calling reset_cycle and passing the name of the cycle.

Examples

 # Alternate CSS classes for even and odd numbers...
 @items = [1,2,3,4]
 <table>
 <% @items.each do |item| %>
   <tr class="<%= cycle("even", "odd") -%>">
     <td>item</td>
   </tr>
 <% end %>
 </table>

 # Cycle CSS classes for rows, and text colors for values within each row
 @items = x = [{:first => 'Robert', :middle => 'Daniel', :last => 'James'},
              {:first => 'Emily', :middle => 'Shannon', :maiden => 'Pike', :last => 'Hicks'},
             {:first => 'June', :middle => 'Dae', :last => 'Jones'}]
 <% @items.each do |item| %>
   <tr class="<%= cycle("even", "odd", :name => "row_class") -%>">
     <td>
       <% item.values.each do |value| %>
         <%# Create a named cycle "colors" %>
         <span style="color:<%= cycle("red", "green", "blue", :name => "colors") -%>">
           <%= value %>
         </span>
       <% end %>
       <% reset_cycle("colors") %>
     </td>
  </tr>
<% end %>



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 380

def cycle(first_value, *values)
  if (values.last.instance_of? Hash)
    params = values.pop
    name = params[:name]
  else
    name = "default"
  end
  values.unshift(first_value)

  cycle = get_cycle(name)
  if (cycle.nil? || cycle.values != values)
    cycle = set_cycle(name, Cycle.new(*values))
  end
  return cycle.to_s
end

#excerpt(text, phrase, radius = 100, excerpt_string = "...") ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 113

def excerpt(text, phrase, radius = 100, excerpt_string = "...")
  if text && phrase
    phrase = Regexp.escape(phrase)

    if found_pos = text.chars =~ /(#{phrase})/i
      start_pos = [ found_pos - radius, 0 ].max
      end_pos   = [ [ found_pos + phrase.chars.length + radius - 1, 0].max, text.chars.length ].min

      prefix  = start_pos > 0 ? excerpt_string : ""
      postfix = end_pos < text.chars.length - 1 ? excerpt_string : ""

      prefix + text.chars[start_pos..end_pos].strip + postfix
    else
      nil
    end
  end
end

#highlight(text, phrases, highlighter = '<strong class="highlight">\1</strong>') ⇒ Object

Highlights one or more phrases everywhere in text by inserting it into a highlighter string. The highlighter can be specialized by passing highlighter as a single-quoted string with 1 where the phrase is to be inserted (defaults to ‘<strong class=“highlight”>1</strong>’)

Examples

highlight('You searched for: rails', 'rails')
# => You searched for: <strong class="highlight">rails</strong>

highlight('You searched for: ruby, rails, dhh', 'actionpack')
# => You searched for: ruby, rails, dhh

highlight('You searched for: rails', ['for', 'rails'], '<em>\1</em>')
# => You searched <em>for</em>: <em>rails</em>

highlight('You searched for: rails', 'rails', "<a href='search?q=\1'>\1</a>")
# => You searched for: <a href='search?q=rails>rails</a>



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 82

def highlight(text, phrases, highlighter = '<strong class="highlight">\1</strong>')
  if text.blank? || phrases.blank?
    text
  else
    match = Array(phrases).map { |p| Regexp.escape(p) }.join('|')
    text.gsub(/(#{match})/i, highlighter)
  end
end

#pluralize(count, singular, plural = nil) ⇒ Object

Attempts to pluralize the singular word unless count is 1. If plural is supplied, it will use that when count is > 1, otherwise it will use the Inflector to determine the plural form

Examples

pluralize(1, 'person')
# => 1 person

pluralize(2, 'person')
# => 2 people

pluralize(3, 'person', 'users')
# => 3 users

pluralize(0, 'person')
# => 0 people



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 166

def pluralize(count, singular, plural = nil)
  "#{count || 0} " + ((count == 1 || count == '1') ? singular : (plural || singular.pluralize))
end

#reset_cycle(name = "default") ⇒ Object

Resets a cycle so that it starts from the first element the next time it is called. Pass in name to reset a named cycle.

Example

# Alternate CSS classes for even and odd numbers...
@items = [[1,2,3,4], [5,6,3], [3,4,5,6,7,4]]
<table>
<% @items.each do |item| %>
  <tr class="<%= cycle("even", "odd") -%>">
      <% item.each do |value| %>
        <span style="color:<%= cycle("#333", "#666", "#999", :name => "colors") -%>">
          <%= value %>
        </span>
      <% end %>

      <% reset_cycle("colors") %>
  </tr>
<% end %>
</table>



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 415

def reset_cycle(name = "default")
  cycle = get_cycle(name)
  cycle.reset unless cycle.nil?
end

#simple_format(text, html_options = {}) ⇒ Object

Returns text transformed into HTML using simple formatting rules. Two or more consecutive newlines(\n\n) are considered as a paragraph and wrapped in <p> tags. One newline (\n) is considered as a linebreak and a <br /> tag is appended. This method does not remove the newlines from the text.

You can pass any HTML attributes into html_options. These will be added to all created paragraphs.

Examples

my_text = "Here is some basic text...\n...with a line break."

simple_format(my_text)
# => "<p>Here is some basic text...\n<br />...with a line break.</p>"

more_text = "We want to put a paragraph...\n\n...right there."

simple_format(more_text)
# => "<p>We want to put a paragraph...</p>\n\n<p>...right there.</p>"

simple_format("Look ma! A class!", :class => 'description')
# => "<p class='description'>Look ma! A class!</p>"



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 300

def simple_format(text, html_options={})
  start_tag = tag('p', html_options, true)
  text = text.to_s.dup
  text.gsub!(/\r\n?/, "\n")                    # \r\n and \r -> \n
  text.gsub!(/\n\n+/, "</p>\n\n#{start_tag}")  # 2+ newline  -> paragraph
  text.gsub!(/([^\n]\n)(?=[^\n])/, '\1<br />') # 1 newline   -> br
  text.insert 0, start_tag
  text << "</p>"
end

#truncate(text, length = 30, truncate_string = "...") ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 49

def truncate(text, length = 30, truncate_string = "...")
  if text
    l = length - truncate_string.chars.length
    chars = text.chars
    (chars.length > length ? chars[0...l] + truncate_string : text).to_s
  end
end

#word_wrap(text, line_width = 80) ⇒ Object

Wraps the text into lines no longer than line_width width. This method breaks on the first whitespace character that does not exceed line_width (which is 80 by default).

Examples

word_wrap('Once upon a time', 4)
# => Once\nupon\na\ntime

word_wrap('Once upon a time', 8)
# => Once upon\na time

word_wrap('Once upon a time')
# => Once upon a time

word_wrap('Once upon a time', 1)
# => Once\nupon\na\ntime



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# File 'lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb', line 186

def word_wrap(text, line_width = 80)
  text.split("\n").collect do |line|
    line.length > line_width ? line.gsub(/(.{1,#{line_width}})(\s+|$)/, "\\1\n").strip : line
  end * "\n"
end