- Enum.reduce(mentions, text, fn ({match, %User{ap_id: ap_id}}, text) -> String.replace(text, match, "<a href='#{ap_id}'>#{match}</a>") end)
+ mentions = mentions
+ |> Enum.sort_by(fn ({name, _}) -> -String.length(name) end)
+ |> Enum.map(fn({name, user}) -> {name, user, Ecto.UUID.generate} end)
+
+ # This replaces the mention with a unique reference first so it doesn't
+ # contain parts of other replaced mentions. There probably is a better
+ # solution for this...
+ step_one = mentions
+ |> Enum.reduce(text, fn ({match, _user, uuid}, text) ->
+ String.replace(text, match, uuid)
+ end)
+
+ Enum.reduce(mentions, step_one, fn ({match, %User{ap_id: ap_id}, uuid}, text) ->
+ String.replace(text, uuid, "<a href='#{ap_id}'>#{match}</a>")
+ end)