Is there a Railsy way to convert \n to <br>?
Currently, I’m doing it like this:
mystring.gsub(/\n/, '<br>') Is there a Railsy way to convert \n to <br> ? Currently, I’m doing
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Is there a Railsy way to convert \n to <br>?
Currently, I’m doing it like this:
mystring.gsub(/\n/, '<br>')
Yes, rails has
simple_formatwhich does exactly what you are looking for, and slightly better since it also adds paragraph tags. Seehttp://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-simple_format
Example:
Note that
simple_formatallows basic HTML tags, but also passes text throughsanitizewhich removes all scripts, so it should be safe for user input.