How to save and display a newlinefeed with rails?

Ruby
1

Hi,
in my little rails application I’ve made a little database (create.sql)
like this:

drop table if exists entries;

create table entries (
id int not null auto_increment,
headline varchar(100) not null,
news text not null,
date_available datetime not null,
primary key (id)
);

You see the news which is a text-type. Scaffold did a nice template with
these infos where I can type in these data and save it. After that I can
print these entries on the screen again with this *.rhtml:

<% for entry in @entries -%>


<%= h(entry.headline) %>


<%= entry.news %>

<%= link_to ‘read comments’,
{:action => ‘read_comments’, :id => entry },
:class => ‘read_comments’ %>


 

<% end %>

But the problem is that I have now textformatting inside the entry.news
field. E.g. how can I insert
after each line in entry.news?

–
greets

                        (
                        )
                     (
              /\  .-"""-.  /\
             //\\/  ,,,  \//\\
             |/\| ,;;;;;, |/\|
             //\\\;-"""-;///\\
            //  \/   .   \/  \\
           (| ,-_| \ | / |_-, |)
             //`__\.-.-./__`\\
            // /.-(() ())-.\ \\
           (\ |)   '---'   (| /)
            ` (|           |) `
      jgs     \)           (/

one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a
dancing star

2

anansi wrote:

    <%= entry.news %> <br>
> But the problem is that I have now textformatting inside the entry.news > field. E.g. how can I insert
after each line in entry.news?

<%= entry.news.split("\n").join("
") %>

or

<%= entry.news.gsub("\n", “
”) %>

3

arghh thanks for your help, wokrs great :slight_smile:

Alex Y. wrote:

or

<%= entry.news.gsub("\n", “
”) %>

–
greets

                        (
                        )
                     (
              /\  .-"""-.  /\
             //\\/  ,,,  \//\\
             |/\| ,;;;;;, |/\|
             //\\\;-"""-;///\\
            //  \/   .   \/  \\
           (| ,-_| \ | / |_-, |)
             //`__\.-.-./__`\\
            // /.-(() ())-.\ \\
           (\ |)   '---'   (| /)
            ` (|           |) `
      jgs     \)           (/

one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a
dancing star

4

On 2007-05-02 21:00:05 +0900 (Wed, May), anansi wrote:

<%= entry.news.split("\n").join("
") %>

or

<%= entry.news.gsub("\n", “
”) %>

Just my 2 cents, but I strongly recommend:

<%= CGI::escapeHTML(entry.news).gsub("\n", “
”) %>
<%= CGI::escapeHTML(entry.news).split("\n").join("
") %>

or

<%= h(entry.news).gsub("\n", “
”) %>
<%= h(entry.news).split("\n").join("
") %>