fix autolinking of comments

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The problem we're solving

URLs written out in comments on PublicLab.org should be automatically made into clickable links, i think this is called "autolinking":

https://publiclab.org/notes/bronwen/02-02-2018/community-kits-prerequisites-checklist

See the comment on the bottom of that page to see a URL that's no longer being made into a link:

https://publiclab.org/notes/bronwen/02-02-2018/community-kits-prerequisites-checklist#c18452

Luckily this is an easy fix!

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• 📝 Update the file app/views/notes/_comment.html.erb in the plots2 repository (press the little pen Icon) and edit the line as shown below.

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Below is a "diff" showing in red (and a -) which lines to remove, and in green (and a +) which lines to add:

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
   </script>
   
   <div id="c<%= comment.cid %>show">
-    <p><%= render_comment_body(comment) %></p>
+    <p><%= raw auto_link(render_comment_body(comment)) %></p>
     <% if comment.body.include?('?') %>
       <p class="alert alert-info">Is this a question? <a href="/questions/new?title=<%= comment.body %>">Click here</a> to post it to the <a href="/questions">Questions page</a>.
       </p>

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[nikosgi]

Claim

[nikosgi]

Done! You can review it!

[jywarren]

Fixed in #2359 -- perfect! Thanks so much and I hope you're interested in tackling another! :-) 👍