hosna
June 27, 2018, 11:12am
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What is the library behind discourse difference preview between different versions? Its really nice and interesting and I want to use it inside my application, if possible.
bts
June 27, 2018, 3:11pm
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I think you’re in luck…looks like someone extracted this recently into a standalone Ruby gem!
I’ve recently found myself with a need for Discourse’s excellent post diffing functionality in a project.
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Normally for a project like this I’d take a look at Discourse’s code and re-implement it to my taste, but this time it struck me as an great library to extract (given that it’s self-contained and uses a computer-sciency algorithm with a fancy name and whatnot)
I’ve extracted it to a gem here:
https://www.github.com/gdpelican/discourse-diff
Which is a straight port of the exis…
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