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Handlebars helper to replicate the functionality of Rails' simple_format view helper.
Wraps everything in a paragraph and corrects newlines and carriage returns. Ignores all other HTML.
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| Handlebars.registerHelper 'simple_format', (text) -> | |
| carriage_returns = /\r\n?/g | |
| paragraphs = /\n\n+/g | |
| newline = /([^\n]\n)(?=[^\n])/g | |
| text = text.replace(carriage_returns, "\n") # \r\n and \r -> \n | |
| text = text.replace(paragraphs, "</p>\n\n<p>") # 2+ newline -> paragraph | |
| text = text.replace(newline, "$1<br/>") # 1 newline -> br | |
| text = "<p>" + text + "</p>"; | |
| new Handlebars.SafeString text |
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Saw this while googling for the exact same thing. Hope you're doing well, man!