discourse/app/models/quoted_post.rb

class QuotedPost < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :post
  belongs_to :quoted_post, class_name: 'Post'

  # NOTE we already have a path that does this for topic links,
  #  however topic links exclude quotes and links within a topic
  #  we are double parsing this fragment, this may be worth optimising later
  def self.extract_from(post)

    doc = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(post.cooked)

    uniq = {}
    ids = []

    doc.css("aside.quote[data-topic]").each do |a|
      topic_id = a['data-topic'].to_i
      post_number = a['data-post'].to_i

      next if topic_id == 0 || post_number == 0
      next if uniq[[topic_id,post_number]]
      uniq[[topic_id,post_number]] = true


      # It would be so much nicer if we used post_id in quotes
      results = exec_sql "INSERT INTO quoted_posts(post_id, quoted_post_id, created_at, updated_at)
               SELECT :post_id, id, current_timestamp, current_timestamp
               FROM posts
               WHERE post_number = :post_number AND
                     topic_id = :topic_id
               RETURNING quoted_post_id
      ", post_id: post.id, post_number: post_number, topic_id: topic_id

      results = results.to_a

      if results.length > 0
        ids << results[0]["quoted_post_id"].to_i
      end
    end

    if ids.length > 0
      exec_sql "DELETE FROM quoted_posts WHERE post_id = :post_id AND quoted_post_id NOT IN (:ids)",
          post_id: post.id, ids: ids
    end

  end
end