"textilize" playing silly buggers with me

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hey guys,

I’m using <%= textilize(@article.body) %> in my view, but it’s doing
funny
things with a html header tag, like so:

General Observations
<ul>
<li>lots of points here</li>
</ul></h2>

however, if I copy and paste the text from the database to a ruby script
and run
that, I get the following:

require ‘redcloth’

r = RedCloth.new "h2. General Observations

  • There are almost as many theories on growing cymbidiums as there are
    growers."

puts r.to_html

gives me

General Observations

<ul>
<li>There are almost as many theories on growing cymbidiums as there

are
growers.

you can see that there isn’t a
tag and the h2 tag is correct.

Any tips on where I’m going wrong? The database field is a mysql text
field,
utf-8, which I’ve been editing using phpMyAdmin on localhost.

thanks!
scott

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you can see that there isn’t a
tag and the h2 tag is correct.

Any tips on where I’m going wrong? The database field is a mysql text field,
utf-8, which I’ve been editing using phpMyAdmin on localhost.

update - looks like there is some kind of bug in redcloth concerning
hard
breaks. if I change the textilize function like so:

Returns the text with all the Textile codes turned into HTML-tags.

    # <i>This method is only available if RedCloth can be

required.
def textilize(text)
if text.blank?
“”
else
#textilized = RedCloth.new(text, [ :hard_breaks ])
#textilized.hard_breaks = true if
textilized.respond_to?(“hard_breaks=”)
# *** SM change - hard_breaks screws up large amounts
textilized
text, like a long article, and screws formatting in general
textilized = RedCloth.new(text)
textilized.to_html
end
end

it works just fine with <%= textilize(@article.body) %>

it would appear that changing line breaks to
tags is triggering a
bug in
textilize, because otherwise I can get a long textile-marked-up document
to
render just fine.

thoughts? I guess I’ll have to dive into the RedCloth code now, to solve
this.

-sm

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On 12/6/05, scott [email protected] wrote:

thoughts? I guess I’ll have to dive into the RedCloth code now, to solve this.

fanatico.org - This website is for sale! - fanatico Resources and Information. - simple fix for
RedCloth.

fanatico.org - This website is for sale! - fanatico Resources and Information. -
patch for Rails. Allows users to pass options to RedCloth through the
textilize method.

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On 12/6/05, scott [email protected] wrote:

you can see that there isn’t a
tag and the h2 tag is correct.

Any tips on where I’m going wrong? The database field is a mysql text field,
utf-8, which I’ve been editing using phpMyAdmin on localhost.

update - looks like there is some kind of bug in redcloth concerning hard
breaks. if I change the textilize function like so:

There seem to be a number of little issues with RedCloth 3.0.4
(latest?). Rolling back to 3.0.3 fixed things nicely for me.

–
Jack Baty
Fusionary Media - http://www.fusionary.com