# Question about displaying the content of a file with Ramaze

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-displaying-the-content-of-a-file-with-ramaze/165980>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 20, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-displaying-the-content-of-a-file-with-ramaze/165980 "2009-04-20T16:09:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-displaying-the-content-of-a-file-with-ramaze/165980/1 "2009-04-20T16:09:15Z")

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Hi all,  
I am trying to learn Ramaze and as such I am playing with a very simple  
script to display the content of a file on a browser.  
My problem begins when I send multiple records to the browser.  
Everything is displayed as a long string without end of line. If I edit  
the  
same file with any editor everything looks fine.  
I even tried adding the new line character after each line but got the  
same  
results.  
Any help will be appreciated.

These are the details:

ruby -v  
ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-mingw32]

ramaze -v  
Ramaze Version 2009.03, on ruby 1.9.1 (2009-01-30) [i386-mingw32]

My Mickey M. program:

require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘ramaze’

class MainController \< Ramaze::Controller  
def index  
processit  
end # index

def processit  
line\_ary = Array.new  
if !File.exist?(“F:/$user/ruby/Programs/DejaVou/2009/bmwlist.txt”)  
return “No List Was Found!”  
end

```
  the_list =

```

File.readlines(“F:/$user/ruby/Programs/DejaVou/2009/bmwlist.txt”)  
the\_list.each do |line|  
line\_ary \<\< line  
end  
line\_ary # Return array of cars to browser  
end # processit  
end # class  
Ramaze.start

The unexpected output:  
["328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 2,065 Black Sapphire Metallic  
$39,995.00  
BMW of Honolulu ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 12,303 Platinum  
Bronze  
Metallic $38,995.00 Sonnen BMW ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic  
16,653  
Titanium Silver Metallic $39,997.00 Crown BMW ", "328i Convertible 2007  
Automatic 17,531 Titanium Silver Metallic $35,991.00 BMW of Dallas ",  
"328i  
Convertible 2007 Automatic 18,245 Jet Black $38,900.00 Habberstad BMW ",  
"328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 18,588 Space Gray Metallic $39,900.00  
Medford BMW ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 20,324 Titanium Silver  
Metallic $39,995.00 BMW of Riverside ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic  
20,852 Montego Blue Metallic $37,995.00 Erhard BMW of Farmington Hills  
",  
"328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 23,669 Monaco Blue Metallic $39,995.00  
BMW  
of Bridgeport ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 24,036 Platinum Bronze  
Metallic $36,970.00 Dreyer & Reinbold, Inc. ", "328i Convertible 2007  
Automatic 24,436 Jet Black $39,995.00 Fields BMW - Lakeland ", "328i  
Convertible 2007 Automatic 25,455 Crimson Red $39,991.00 Global Imports  
",  
"328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 29,780 Platinum Bronze Metallic  
$39,900.00  
Vista Motor Company ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 30,121 Titanium  
Silver Metallic $36,995.00 Fields BMW - Lakeland ", "328i Convertible  
2007  
Automatic 30,310 Sparkling Graphite Metallic $38,995.00 Lauderdale BMW  
of  
Fort Lauderdale ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 37,938 Jet Black  
$35,988.00 Brecht BMW ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic 38,693 Crimson  
Red  
$36,950.00 Rick Hendrick Imports ", "328i Convertible 2007 Automatic  
42,062  
Crimson Red $33,991.00 Irvine BMW ", "328i Convertible 2008 Automatic  
5,821  
Titanium Silver Metallic $39,995.00 Century West BMW ", "328i  
Convertible  
2008 Automatic 34,701 Platinum Bronze Metallic $39,991.00 BMW of Houston  
North ", "335i Convertible 2007 Automatic 21,070 Monaco Blue Metallic  
$39,993.00 Desert BMW of Henderson ", "335i Convertible 2007 Automatic  
39,338 Space Gray Metallic $39,933.00 Suntrup West County BMW ", "335i  
Convertible 2008 Automatic 43,319 Platinum Bronze Metallic $39,995.00  
The  
BMW Store "]

Thank you

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**Author:** ![rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubina)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-displaying-the-content-of-a-file-with-ramaze/165980/2 "2009-04-20T17:34:26Z")

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ruby S.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> ```
> line_ary << line
> 
> ```

Newline characters are not interpreted by a browser so you need to  
append a  
“  
” tag to each line. Ideally you should be doing this in a view  
instead.

Ben

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**Author:** ![rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rubina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubina)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-displaying-the-content-of-a-file-with-ramaze/165980/3 "2009-04-20T18:49:27Z")

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Ben L.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> > 
> 
> Ben

Ben,  
Thank you for your answer. I’ll try using a “view” as you suggested.