Hey all, this is a pretty simple question but I can''t seem to find anything on the wikki or google... Is there a Ruby/Rails equivilent to PHP''s nl2br function? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
simple_format("whatever\n\n") => "whatever<br/><br/>" found in TextHelper On 4/13/06, hieg <hieg@visioncritical.com> wrote:> > Hey all, this is a pretty simple question but I can''t seem to find > anything on the wikki or google... Is there a Ruby/Rails equivilent to > PHP''s nl2br function? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060413/41638222/attachment.html
Try some_string.gsub!(/\n/, ''<br />'') You also might want to look at Textile (http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php) or Markdown -----Original Message----- From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org [mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of hieg Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:17 AM To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: [Rails] equivilent to PHP''s nl2br? Hey all, this is a pretty simple question but I can''t seem to find anything on the wikki or google... Is there a Ruby/Rails equivilent to PHP''s nl2br function? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Awsomr, thanks to both of you! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I wrote a helper function: def nl2br(string) string.gsub("\n\r","<br>").gsub("\r", "").gsub("\n", "<br />") end This seems to work fairly well. I put it in the application helper wherever I think I''ll need it. I feed it html, say like this: nl2br(h (@object.text)) You could certainly modify it so that it automatically wraps the input in an h(). Nicholas P. Mueller On Apr 13, 2006, at 12:16 PM, hieg wrote:> Hey all, this is a pretty simple question but I can''t seem to find > anything on the wikki or google... Is there a Ruby/Rails > equivilent to > PHP''s nl2br function? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails