Rails - Mar 2006 - How to keep formatting of text in textarea?

Hi!

I''ve got a form for creating news and i''d like to keep
formatting of the
text in the textarea - if user presses enter twice, or presses space ten 
times it should be visible when editing or showing the news.

Probably i should add before_save filter and some regexps for adding 
html tags, but i know almost nothing about regexp. Maybe there''s a 
simpler way also.

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On 09/03/06, szymek <g0nzo@o2.pl> wrote:
> I''ve got a form for creating news and i''d like to keep
formatting of the
> text in the textarea - if user presses enter twice, or presses space ten
> times it should be visible when editing or showing the news.
>
> Probably i should add before_save filter and some regexps for adding
> html tags, but i know almost nothing about regexp. Maybe there''s a
> simpler way also.
Use RedCloth (http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/) :)

Install RedCloth gem (preferably version 3.0.3 as 3.0.4 is somewhat
broken). Then when presenting contents of field use textilize() helper
like this:

<%= textilize(@item.description) %>

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Dzieki!!!

Is there already function for everything? :)

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