# The textilize method

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 25, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047 "2006-03-25T13:27:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewartm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047/1 "2006-03-25T13:27:48Z")

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I saw the guy in the 15 min blog video calling a method called textilize  
however when i call it rails says it cant find this method. Is this  
somehting extra i have to install to ruby… like a gem or somehting

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**Author:** ![stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewartm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047/2 "2006-03-25T13:32:50Z")

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Yes, go to command line, and on windows type:

gem install redcloth

on Unix/Linux/OS X type:

sudo gem install redcloth

Then restart your development server, and you should be ready to go.

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**Author:** ![stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewartm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047/3 "2006-03-25T14:11:24Z")

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Robert MannI wrote:

> Yes, go to command line, and on windows type:
> 
> gem install redcloth
> 
> on Unix/Linux/OS X type:
> 
> sudo gem install redcloth
> 
> Then restart your development server, and you should be ready to go.

thanks for that one Robert, it works fine now… just a question

what does the “sudo” part of the command do?

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**Author:** ![stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewartm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047/4 "2006-03-25T14:15:27Z")

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Wiebe C. wrote:

> Stewart M. wrote:
> 
> > just a question
> > 
> > what does the “sudo” part of the command do?
> 
> It makes you root (superuser). It should have asked for a password,  
> except if you were already root.

ah i see thanks for that wiebe yes i was already the root use so it did  
not matter

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**Author:** ![stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewartm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewartm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-textilize-method/87047/5 "2006-03-25T14:13:57Z")

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Stewart M. wrote:

> just a question
> 
> what does the “sudo” part of the command do?

It makes you root (superuser). It should have asked for a password,  
except if you were already root.