I have a controller that saves info to the DB. It''s based on the AJAX scaffolding code. All I want to do is add a simple_format() function to it before I save a user-edited text field to the DB. TO convert line returns to <br>s, etc. @project_note = ProjectNote.new(params[:project_note]) @project_note.body = simple_format(@project_note.body) Since this happens in a controller, I guess it''s not kosher to use viewer code, and Rails doesn''t let me. (Some interesting discussions back from January 05 in the mail archives). I see lots of examples of how to use helper :my_helper in a controller, with MY own generated helpers, but how can I use the core API TextHelper suite? err... and is there an opposite to simple_format, that converts <br>s into line returns? regex would be simple enough of course, but if somebody already wrote it into the API... (Yes, I did check the API as far as I could). TIA, Micah -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.