Improved quotes

app/assets/stylesheets/forum-monster.css.scss

@@ -54,4 +54,25 @@ blockquote {
   font-style: italic;
   margin: 10px 0px 0px 25px;
   padding: 10px;
- }
+ }
+
+ blockquote span.a, blockquote span.b { 
+   font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 50px; color: #8ac;
+ }
+
+ blockquote span.a {
+  position: relative;
+  top:0.2em;
+ }
+
+ blockquote span.b {
+   position:relative;
+   top:0.8em;
+ }
+
+ blockquote cite {
+   display: block;
+   text-align: left;
+   font-style: normal;
+   font-weight:bold;
+ }

app/controllers/posts_controller.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class PostsController < ApplicationController
     if params[:quote]
       quote_post = Post.find(params[:quote])
       if quote_post
-        @post.body = "[quote]#{quote_post.body}[/quote]"
+        @post.body = "[quote=#{quote_post.user.username}]#{quote_post.body}[/quote]"
       end
     end
   end
@@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ class PostsController < ApplicationController
     end
   end
   
-end
+end

app/controllers/topics_controller.rb

@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ class TopicsController < ApplicationController
   
   def show
     @topic.hit! if @topic
+
+    @my_blockquote = {
+      'Quote' => [
+       /\[quote(:.*)?=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/quote\1?\]/mi,
+      '<blockquote><cite>\2</cite><span class="a">&#8220;</span>\3<span class="b">&#8221;</span></blockquote>',
+      'Quote with citation',
+      '[quote=mike]please quote me[/quote]',
+      :quote
+     ],      
+    }
   end
   
   def create

app/helpers/application_helper.rb

@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
 module ApplicationHelper
-  @my_blockquote = {
+
-    'Quote' => [
-      /\[quote\](.*?)\[\/quote\1?\]/mi,
-      '<blockquote>\3</blockquote>',
-      'Quote with citation',
-      '[quote=mike]please quote me[/quote]',
-      :quote
-    ],      
-  }
 end

app/views/topics/show.html.erb

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td class="post_body">
-              <%= post.body.bbcode_to_html().html_safe %>
+              <%= post.body.bbcode_to_html(@my_blockquote).html_safe %>
             </td>
           </tr>
         <%end%>