Rails 3: How to display properly text from “textarea”?

Question

In my Rails 3 application I use textarea to let users to write a new message in a forum.

However, when the message is displayed, all newlines look like spac

Answer 1

Rails got a helper method out of the box, so you dont have to write your own method.

From the documentation:

simple_format(text, html_options={}, options={})

my_text = "Here is some basic text...\n...with a line break."

simple_format(my_text)
# => "
Here is some basic text...\n
...with a line break.
"

more_text = "We want to put a paragraph...\n\n...right there."

simple_format(more_text)
# => "
We want to put a paragraph...
\n\n
...right there.
"

simple_format("Look ma! A class!", :class => 'description')
# => "
Look ma! A class!
"