Is there a ruby helper for making absolute links out of User Contributed links if they are not absol

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Published on 2010-05-13T18:28:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 18:44 UTC
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For example,

User adds this "iamsmelly.com".

And if I add an href to this, the link would be

www.mywebsite.com/iamsmelly.com

Is there a way to make it absolute if its not prepended by an http:// ?

Or should I revert to jQuery for this?

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