A Ruby Automator action for opening all URLs and JIRA ticket ids from the input string.

open_urls_in_string.rb

require 'uri'

# without force_encoding ruby will throw an 
# "invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII" exception
# when running this script from Automator
input = ARGF.read.force_encoding("UTF-8")

# scan for JIRA Ticket IDs like MYPROJECT-42
input.scan(/([A-Z]+\-[0-9]+)/).each do |id|
  url = "https://<your JIRA server>/browse/#{id[0]}"
  `open #{url}`
end

# extract all other URLs from the input string
URI.extract(input, ['http','https']).each do |url|
  `open #{url}`
end