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backend/spec/services/post_url_normaliser_spec.rb

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+require 'rails_helper'
+
+RSpec.describe PostUrlNormaliser do
+  before do
+    PostUrlSanitisationRule.unscoped.delete_all
+  end
+
+  describe '.normalise' do
+    it 'normalises the host and trailing slash before applying sanitisation rules' do
+      PostUrlSanitisationRule.create!(
+        priority: 10,
+        source_pattern: '\\Ahttps://example\\.com/source\\z',
+        replacement: 'https://example.com/canonical'
+      )
+
+      result = described_class.normalise('  https://EXAMPLE.com/source/  ')
+
+      expect(result).to eq('https://example.com/canonical')
+    end
+
+    it 'returns nil for unsupported or malformed URLs' do
+      expect(described_class.normalise('ftp://example.com/file')).to be_nil
+      expect(described_class.normalise('https://[')).to be_nil
+      expect(described_class.normalise('https:/path')).to be_nil
+    end
+  end
+end