Fix for Emoji

app/assets/javascripts/awards_handler.coffee

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class @AwardsHandler
 
   postEmoji: (emoji, callback) ->
     $.post @post_emoji_url, { note: {
-      note: emoji
+      note: ":" + emoji + ":"
       noteable_type: @noteable_type
       noteable_id: @noteable_id
     }},(data) ->

app/controllers/projects/notes_controller.rb

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class Projects::NotesController < Projects::ApplicationController
     data = {
       author: current_user,
       is_award: true,
-      note: note_params[:note]
+      note: note_params[:note].gsub(":", '')
     }
 
     note = noteable.notes.find_by(data)

app/helpers/issues_helper.rb

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ module IssuesHelper
   def url_to_emoji(name)
     emoji_path = ::AwardEmoji.path_to_emoji_image(name)
     url_to_image(emoji_path)
+  rescue StandardError
+    ""
   end
 
   def emoji_author_list(notes, current_user)

app/services/notes/create_service.rb

@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ module Notes
     end
 
     def contains_emoji_only?(note)
-      note =~ /\A:?[-_+[:alnum:]]*:?\s?\z/
+      note =~ /\A:[-_+[:alnum:]]*:\s?\z/
     end
 
     def emoji_name(note)
-      note.match(/\A:?([-_+[:alnum:]]*):?\s?/)[1]
+      note.match(/\A:([-_+[:alnum:]]*):\s?/)[1]
     end
   end
 end