# Smilies / Emoticons

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 18, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465 "2006-08-18T13:14:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joopp)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465/1 "2006-08-18T13:14:11Z")

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Hi,

I want to replace text smilies with images in one of my Rails  
applications.  
Anyone knows a plugin / … for this matter?

## Thanks!

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**Author:** ![joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joopp)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465/2 "2006-08-18T13:23:12Z")

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I don’t know of a plugin off of the top of my head, but I think you  
could  
accomplish this via a replacement regex against the content.

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**Author:** ![joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joopp)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465/3 "2006-08-18T13:50:15Z")

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Yep… but do you know of an collection of emoticon images that can be  
used?

Michael G. wrote:

> > I want to replace text smilies with images in one of my Rails  
> > Rails mailing list  
> > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)
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> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

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**Author:** ![joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@joopp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joopp)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465/4 "2006-08-18T15:41:29Z")

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> Yep… but do you know of an collection of emoticon images that can  
> be used?

[http://www.kevinhatch.com/projects/appimg/emoticons/](http://www.kevinhatch.com/projects/appimg/emoticons/)

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smilies-emoticons/65465/5 "2006-11-07T11:00:29Z")

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## thanx!

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