# Automatically stripping whitespace from form fields?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481 "2006-10-17T15:21:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481/1 "2006-10-17T15:21:13Z")

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Hi

Is it possible to automatically strip whitespace from form the  
begining and end of fields?

Is there a setting, filter or plugin somewhere?

thanks

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**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481/2 "2006-10-17T17:27:07Z")

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> Is it possible to automatically strip whitespace from form the  
> begining and end of fields?
> 
> Is there a setting, filter or plugin somewhere?

You could write a before\_filter and put it in application.rb which  
looped  
through params and stripped each entry it found…

-philip

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**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481/3 "2006-10-17T17:35:11Z")

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Hi,

Due to unanticipated family issues, I’ve got a ticket but am not going.

I paid $125; I’d be willing to give sell it to someone for the same.

Bill

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**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481/4 "2006-10-18T00:14:58Z")

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Jason B. wrote:

> Is it possible to automatically strip whitespace from form the  
> begining and end of fields?
> 
> Is there a setting, filter or plugin somewhere?

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToStripWhitespaceFromModelFields](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToStripWhitespaceFromModelFields)

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We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

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**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/automatically-stripping-whitespace-from-form-fields/72481/5 "2006-10-17T18:07:25Z")

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String#strip should do it. See [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com).

good luck,  
-Jason

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