Display a string properly in View

Rails
1

Dear all

I have problem in print the string in View.

@event = Event.first

puts @event.event_detail
dreq_reqno dreq_status dreq_create_time
09P0917228 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32
09P5075748 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32
09P5075755 0 18 Jun 2009 16:33
The format is pretty good using puts

But when I print this in View, the format disorder (Some spaces are
trimmed.)…

<%= @event.event_detail.event_detail.gsub("\n", "
") %> dreq_reqno dreq_status dreq_create_time 09P0917228 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32 09P5075748 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32 09P5075755 0 18 Jun 2009 16:33

How can I have the “puts @event.event_detail” in View?? I tried this,
but not work.

<%= puts @event.event_detail %>

Many thanks
Valentino

2

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Valentino L. <
[email protected]> wrote:

09P5075748 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32

How can I have the “puts @event.event_detail” in View?? I tried this,
but not work.

<%= puts @event.event_detail %>

Many thanks
Valentino

Remove the puts and just use <%= @event.event_detail… %>
The ‘<%=’ is like puts

Andrew T.
http://ramblingsonrails.com

http://MyMvelope.com - The SIMPLE way to manage your savings

3

Hi Valentino

You shouldn’t use puts, for output in the view.

You probably want to split the info for each event into seperate cells
so your table is well-structured.
In which case I’d write a helper_method and throw most of the work
into there.

If not, you can stop html from collapsing white-space by either
replacing each space with   (non-breaking space) or set the
table’s style:

table {
white-space: pre;
}

in your css.

Gav

On Jun 18, 10:12 am, Valentino L. [email protected]

4

Dear Gavin

Thanks for your reply, it works well after amend the css file.

But I don’t understand how the helper_method can use to generate a
table?? Could you further elaborate on it? (Sorry that I am new in
rails…)

Many thanks
Valentino

Gavin M. wrote:

Hi Valentino

You shouldn’t use puts, for output in the view.

You probably want to split the info for each event into seperate cells
so your table is well-structured.
In which case I’d write a helper_method and throw most of the work
into there.

If not, you can stop html from collapsing white-space by either
replacing each space with   (non-breaking space) or set the
table’s style:

table {
white-space: pre;
}

in your css.

Gav

http://handyrailstips.com

On Jun 18, 10:12�am, Valentino L. [email protected]

5

Thank you for your reply

It is not work using this
<%= @event.event_detail %>

it seems that the “\n” is not working in HTML, and the multiple space
are trimmed

event.event_detail.inspect
=> “"dreq_reqno dreq_status dreq_create_time\n 09P0917228
0 18 Jun 2009 16:32\n 09P5075748 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32\n
09P5075755 0 18 Jun 2009 16:33\n"”

Many thanks
Valentino

Andrew T. wrote:

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Valentino L. <
[email protected]> wrote:

09P5075748 0 18 Jun 2009 16:32

How can I have the “puts @event.event_detail” in View?? I tried this,
but not work.

<%= puts @event.event_detail %>

Many thanks
Valentino

Remove the puts and just use <%= @event.event_detail… %>
The ‘<%=’ is like puts

Andrew T.
http://ramblingsonrails.com

http://MyMvelope.com - The SIMPLE way to manage your savings

6

Sure,

From what you’ve written, it looks like your event model has
attributes called dreq_reqno, dreq_status and dreq_create_time and
you’ve joined these together with the event_detail method.

If this is the case, you could add a method in on of your helper files
(probably EventsHelper) that will build a table for you with all of
the desired columns and rows.

Here’s an example:

def events_table(events)
concat “

” # concat is equivelant to puts in this case
for event in events do
concat “” # you can write html tags or use the rails view
helpers
concat content_tag(:td, event.attribute_1) # the first columns
attribute
concat content_tag(:td, event.attribute_2) # the second columns
attribute
concat "
end
concat “
”
nil # important to return nil at the end of the helper method
end

Writing html in a helper using the concat method can get a little
messy though. I would use a gem/plugin called markaby here as it’s
much cleaner.

when adding a table in your view, you’d simply use <%= events_table
(@events) %>

Thinking about it, this would probably be easier in a parial:

parial called events

<% content_tag :table do %>
<% for event in events do %>
<% content_tag :tr do %>
<%= content_tag :td, event.attribute_1 %>
… etc
<% end %>
<% end %>
<% end %>

Then call <%= render :partial => ‘events’, :object => @events %> from
your view.

Gav