Comments on: Ruby on Rails Snippet for Changing Relative Paths to Absolute http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/ruby-on-rails-snippet-for-changing-relative-paths-to-absolute User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:37:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: vague http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/ruby-on-rails-snippet-for-changing-relative-paths-to-absolute/comment-page-1#comment-56743 vague Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:47:11 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/?p=1500#comment-56743 You could use either blocks or string interpolation to get rid of the hacky * thing. With Interpolation: <code> content.gsub(/=('|")\//, "=\\1#{link.match(/(http|https):\/\/[\w.]+\//)[0]}./") </code> With a block: <code> content.gsub(/=('|")\//) {|m| "=#$1%s/" % link.match(/(http|https):\/\/[\w.]+\//)[0]} </code> You could use either blocks or string interpolation to get rid of the hacky * thing.

With Interpolation:

content.gsub(/=('|")\//, "=\\1#{link.match(/(http|https):\/\/[\w.]+\//)[0]}./")

With a block:

content.gsub(/=('|")\//) {|m| "=#$1%s/" % link.match(/(http|https):\/\/[\w.]+\//)[0]}

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