Help with simple_format and line breaks

[onemind]

Hello Ruby forum,
I’ve been looking at the other threads before posting this, but I can’t
find a good solution to the problem I’m having.

The problem: in one of my views, I have the following code:

<% for column in BlogPost.content_columns %>

<%=h(simple_format(blog_post.send(column.name))) %>
<% end %>

This does exactly what it’s supposed to do - it preserves the line
breaks and carriage returns entered into my text fields by adding

,
and suchlike. But that's all it does. If I entered:

“Please
have
a nice day”

into the “body” text field of my blog engine, I would get:

“Please

have

a nice day”

back (I left some HTML code out, but you get the idea).

How do I get back exactly what I entered? If you answer, would you mind
posting some code? I still haven’t seen a code example that solves this
problem. Thanks in advance!

[onemind]

onemind wrote:

How do I get back exactly what I entered? If you answer, would you mind
posting some code? I still haven’t seen a code example that solves this

This is without code… Sorry
Have a look at the incoming posting. If you enter the message directly
into your database, it wont have any line breaks at all. If a message
comes from a textfield on your page it will contain line breaks like
“\n”.

bye.
andreas

[onemind]

Andreas wrote:
Have a look at the incoming posting. If you enter the message directly
into your database, it wont have any line breaks at all. If a message
comes from a textfield on your page it will contain line breaks like
“\n”.

Hi andreas,
I feed the text into the database from a :text field in my view. I
looked at what was stored in my tables, and it looks like it has line
breaks. They just don’t show up in my UI. Any insights?

Thank you,
onemind