The team changed rule on what must be stored on a specific column. We used to store just a single url which we output as a link on the view. Now it is allowed to store combination of plain texts and urls. And all urls have to display as a link in the views.

One quick solution to this is to use the rails_autolink gem. It used to be a part of rails but removed at some point and have been extracted as a gem. To use it, just include it in the Gemfile then run bundle install:

gem 'rails_autolink'

The auto_link helper would then be available on your views as a helper.

{% highlight ruby %} <%= auto_link 'A: www.example.com/my_media_page B: www.example.com/my_blog' %> {% endhighlight %}

Would output:

{% highlight text %} A: www.example.com/aB: www.example.com/b {% endhighlight %}