HTML tags in database

Ruby
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I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

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On 9/29/06, Amos K. [email protected] wrote:

I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

Can you show some specifc code please? There isn’t enough context
here for us to help you.

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Amos K. wrote:

I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

You are probably escaping “<”, “>” and “&”. Just don’t do that.

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On 9/29/06, Gregory B. [email protected] wrote:

On 9/29/06, Amos K. [email protected] wrote:

I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

Can you show some specifc code please? There isn’t enough context
here for us to help you.

sure

<%= post.body %>

body may look like:

Hello, I’m a link!

I want the html to be interpreted, but it is showing up as text in my
browser so link is not a link.

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I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

rhtml looks like:

<%= post.body %>

body may look like:

Hello, I’m a link!

output:

Hello, I’m a link!

I want the html to be interpreted, but it is showing up as text in my
browser so link is not a link.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this.

Thanks
Amos

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On 9/29/06, Amos K. [email protected] wrote:

Hello, I’m a link!

Look at the source code.

You might be actually getting <