Question

I have a simple form, where a user can write some text and this text will be send to his email. This process works fine, but I have a problem with the text, that user wrote – in the email is displayed following:

["sadgsdah\r\nsdh\r\ndsf\r\nh\r\nfdhdfhdfh\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nfdh\r\ndf\r\njh"]

why there are the brackets and the \n and \r chars?

Before than I give the variable with the content into the email template, I tried to do following:

mess_body = params[:contact][:message].to_s.html_safe

But unfortunately this didn’t help me… what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

First of all

mess_body = params[:contact][:message]

returns a array, not a single thing. That is why you get the [” and “] around the output.
you could get the first element like this:

mess_body = params[:contact][:message][0]  

Furthermore \n\r are line endings of a text box. Assuming that the e-mail you’re sending is HTML the \n\r should be replaced by <br> in the String