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Asked: 2026-05-15T10:48:32+00:00

I have a text area into which users enter a lot of text that

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I have a text area into which users enter a lot of text that potentially includes hyperlinks. How can I display the text and have the URLs automatically appear as hyperlinks? Is there a gem, plugin, or existing method that does this? I’m looking to be able to do something like:
<%=h @my_object.description.with_links %> in my view.

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    Rails 4+

    Auto-linking has been removed from Rails and has been made into the rails_autolink gem.

    require 'rails_autolink'

auto_link("Go to http://www.rubyonrails.org and say hello to david@loudthinking.com")
# => "Go to <a href=\"http://www.rubyonrails.org\">http://www.rubyonrails.org</a> and
#     say hello to <a href=\"mailto:david@loudthinking.com\">david@loudthinking.com</a>"

    Rails 3

    Use the provided helper method called auto_link, which is part of ActionView.

    <%=h auto_link(@my_object.description) %>
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