# Comments for a blog **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 29, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214 "2006-03-29T04:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/1 "2006-03-29T04:35:33Z")
Hello, I’m making a blog and I need some function that convert the text writed for a user in a textarea into a formated text. I think to use h, but it forget paragraph breaks and I like allow some tags. By Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/2 "2006-03-29T04:38:54Z")
I like Redcloth: [http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/](http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/) ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/3 "2006-03-29T04:39:26Z")
I use RedCloth w/ h. RedCloth.new(h comment).to\_html This will sanitize via h, and then convert textile commands to HTML. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/4 "2006-03-29T04:42:20Z")
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Rabbit wrote: > I like Redcloth: > [http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/](http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/) But in redcloth a user can insert tags that I don’t want allow. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/5 "2006-03-29T13:24:53Z")
Le Mercredi 29 Mars 2006 04:34, Daniel Hernandez a écrit : > Hello, Hello, > I’m making a blog and I need some function that convert the text > writed for a user in a textarea into a formated text. > I think to use h, but it forget paragraph breaks and I > like allow some tags. You can use simple\_format, see : [http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000510](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000510) Bye. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/6 "2006-03-29T05:00:26Z")
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Michael G. wrote: > I use RedCloth w/ h. > > RedCloth.new(h comment).to\_html > > This will sanitize via h, and then convert textile commands to HTML. But it has two problems: 1. I like allow some tags like ``` but h sanitize it. ``` 2. I don’t like allow some ReCloth’s tags like h1. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hernandez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_Hernandez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-for-a-blog/56214/7 "2006-03-29T13:57:54Z")
I use this: [http://blog.ideoplex.com/2005/03/17.html](http://blog.ideoplex.com/2005/03/17.html)