I'm really close to solving this that I can smell it. In a nutshell I'm trying to create this:
I have an app that has a database of baseball players. I'm trying to create a feature where you can copy and paste your blog text, the feature will scan the text and return the text with the proper html links of my app that point to the player. For example, I'm a blog writer, I create a entry with one sentence "I am a big fan of Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada of the Yankees" and I click submit. I want the output to return the same sentence, but with the link of Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada.
This is where I'm at: #This code is taking the sentence and scanning it for two words that are next to each other that have the first letter capitalized @new_link_array = #this is the link data that is returned from my query search via ferret. It will provide the proper link to the players. @full_text = params[:q] @full_text_array = @full_text.scan(/([A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]* [A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]*)/)
@full_text_array.each_with_index do |original_name, i| @full_text.gsub!(original_name.to_s, @new_link_array[i]) end
results = @full_text.scan(/([A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]* [A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]*)/)
names_links = {}
results.each do |name| unless names_links[name] names_links[name] = method_to_construct_link_for_name(name) end end
names_links.each_pair do |name, link| @full_text.gsub!(name, link) end
The results are not consistent. I was wondering if somebody could help me out.
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