Textilize problems with line breaks

Rails
1

I’m having a problem formatting some text. I have a textarea that I
input my text into, which will then be put into an e-mail and sent out.

The problem I am having is when there is a single line break.
Multiple line breaks work fine (hitting enter twice), but single line
breaks don’t seem to work properly.

Take the following input:

Line1.

Line2.

Line3.
Line4.

Using <%= textilize @body %> gives me:

Line1.
Line2.
Line3.
Line4.

Knowing that there’s an issue in rails with hard_breaks and
textilize, I tried RedCloth.new(@body).to_html, which gave me:

Line1.

Line2.

Line3.Line4.

Am I missing something??

2

try:

sometext = RedCloth.new(@body, :hard_breaks)
sometext.to_html

although, judging by http://redcloth.rubyforge.org/rdoc/ that should be
the default behaviour, and the rails ‘textilize’ method should also do
that by default:

# File

vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb, line 84
84: def textilize(text)
85: if text.blank?
86: “”
87: else
88: textilized = RedCloth.new(text, [ :hard_breaks ])
89: textilized.hard_breaks = true if
textilized.respond_to?(“hard_breaks=”)
90: textilized.to_html
91: end
92: end

I’ve had loads of problems with various platforms and hard_breaks.
what is your actual html output from the various options you tried?

3

Doing that gives me the exact same output that textilize(@body) does.

Textilize(@body) and RedCloth.new(@body, [:hard_breaks]).to_html both
give me:

Test1.
Test2.
Test3.
Test4.

RedCloth.new(@body).to_html (without hard_breaks) gives me:

Test1.

Test2.

Test3. Test4.

I’ve also tried doing a textilize(@body.gsub("\r\n","
")) to
force one
per line break, but then it screws up things like
bulleted and numbered lists.