BBCode for Ruby on Rails

Question

So I'm putting together a simple forum. I'd like to allow my users limited formatting options and BBCode would be plenty for my users. Knowing that I'm assuredly not the first one to want to use BBCode with RoR I googled but couldn't find a straight forward tutorial on how to create a editor which accepts BBCode nor a way to parse and display BBCode formatted input.

Any help or guides would be appreciated!

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 30 '14 at 21:21

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You should give bb-ruby a try. Its documentation on the web page seems to be very clear and straightforward.

edited Jun 30 '14 at 21:21

Thiago Silveira

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answered Oct 01 '09 at 20:13

kirushik

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last version of this was however released 2 years ago, and it has poor support for nested tags since it is regex based. so [ul][li][ul][li][/li][/ul][/li][/ul] will yield bad results – Ben Oct 28 '11 at 00:02
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>last version of this was however released 2 years ago Just up-to-date at the time when the answer was posted,I must note. – kirushik Oct 30 '11 at 00:16

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 02 '09 at 07:03

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Here is another gem you may find useful

http://github.com/jarrett/rbbcode

answered Oct 02 '09 at 07:03

Spasm

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I just released a new version of rbbcode. It's waaaay better than the original. For starters, it's based on Treetop rather than my own hacked-together state machine. – rlkw1024 Oct 27 '12 at 23:39

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 05 '15 at 13:38

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Gemfile

gem 'bb-ruby'
# run `bundle`

In the place (haml):

%h1= put_header_string.bbcode_to_html.html_safe
%p= "[b]bold text[/b]".bbcode_to_html.html_safe

Besides a builtins you could also extend your own bbcode as you need. For example:

module BBRuby
  @@tags = @@tags.merge({
      'Email' => [
        /\[email(:.*)?\](.*?)\[\/file\1?\]/mi,
        lambda{ |e| "<span class='email'>#{e[2].gsub('@','<i>(at)</i>')}</span>"},
        'protect email from spam',
        '[email]electronic@test.ru[/email]',
        :email
      ],
    })
end

In place

[b]Contact me:[/b][email]email@test.ru[/email]

Contact me: email(at)test.ru

bb-ruby on github | bb-ruby on rubygems | bb-ruby home | tags processed list

edited Oct 05 '15 at 13:38

Lightness Races in Orbit

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Why not setting directly the `bb-ruby` gem in the Gemfile? – sidney Apr 25 '14 at 14:47
@sidney, omg, udp/rewrite. (this was not possible in my previous hosting provider) – Ivan Black Apr 25 '14 at 16:48

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