Discourse diff library

[bts (Brendan Schlagel)]

I think you’re in luck…looks like someone extracted this recently into a standalone Ruby gem!

Extracting discourse's text diffing functionality

I’ve recently found myself with a need for Discourse’s excellent post diffing functionality in a project. [45%20PM] 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…