# Ruby-bbcode-to-markdown removes https
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 2, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425 "2016-03-02T01:35:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/1 "2016-03-02T01:35:33Z")
Hello.
Using [GitHub - nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md: Convert BBCode to Markdown. · GitHub](https://github.com/nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md) like
```
"[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvnHv42T-A[/youtube]".bbcode_to_md
```
it returns
```
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvnHv42T-A"
```
stripping away the https.
Ryan
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/2 "2016-03-02T02:16:19Z")
Hmm yeah that looks like a bug we should fix. Does it affect Discourse too, presumably yes?
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### Author:  [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/3 "2016-03-02T17:31:25Z")
Yes, because [Migrate a phpBB3 forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-phpbb3/30810) recommends using it.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/4 "2016-03-02T22:53:22Z")
I think you are mistaken. That Howto doesn’t recommend using bbcode\_to\_md.
Well, it doesn’t discourage its usage either, but at least it’s off by default. 😉
And does it affect Discourse itself? No, only the import scripts that are using that gem.
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### Author:  [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/5 "2016-03-02T23:20:55Z")
Sorry, you’re right. I was taking the suggestion of installing the gem as a dependency too far.
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### Author:  [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/6 "2016-03-04T23:07:06Z")
I made a PR to @neil 's repo to fix this by making it always be https. [default youtube tag urls to always be https by ryantm · Pull Request #2 · nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md · GitHub](https://github.com/nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md/pull/2)
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/7 "2016-03-07T15:55:34Z")
Thanks @ryantm! I merged the changes. Also thanks for improving the tests.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ruby-bbcode-to-markdown-removes-https/40425/8 "2016-03-07T22:56:17Z")