Rails - Mar 2006 - Textilize problems with line breaks

I''m having a problem formatting some text. I have a textarea that I  
input my text into, which will then be put into an e-mail and sent out.

The problem I am having is when there is a single line break.  
Multiple line breaks work fine (hitting enter twice), but single line  
breaks don''t seem to work properly.

Take the following input:

Line1.

Line2.

Line3.
Line4.

Using <%= textilize @body %> gives me:

Line1.
Line2.
Line3.
Line4.

Knowing that there''s an issue in rails with hard_breaks and  
textilize, I tried RedCloth.new(@body).to_html, which gave me:

Line1.

Line2.

Line3.Line4.

Am I missing something??

try:

sometext = RedCloth.new(@body, :hard_breaks)
sometext.to_html

although, judging by http://redcloth.rubyforge.org/rdoc/ that should be the
default behaviour, and the rails ''textilize'' method should
also do that by default:

    # File vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb, line
84
84:         def textilize(text)
85:           if text.blank?
86:             ""
87:           else
88:             textilized = RedCloth.new(text, [ :hard_breaks ])
89:             textilized.hard_breaks = true if
textilized.respond_to?("hard_breaks=")
90:             textilized.to_html
91:           end
92:         end

I''ve had loads of problems with various platforms and hard_breaks.
what is your actual html output from the various options you tried?
> Knowing that there''s an issue in rails with hard_breaks and
textilize, I
> tried RedCloth.new(@body).to_html, which gave me:
> 
> Line1.
> 
> Line2.
> 
> Line3.Line4.
> 
> Am I missing something??
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Doing that gives me the exact same output that textilize(@body) does.

Textilize(@body) and RedCloth.new(@body, [:hard_breaks]).to_html both  
give me:

<p>Test1.<br />Test2.<br />Test3.<br />Test4.</p>

RedCloth.new(@body).to_html (without hard_breaks) gives me:

<p>Test1.</p><p>Test2.</p><p>Test3.
Test4.</p>

I''ve also tried doing a
textilize(@body.gsub("\r\n","<br/>")) to
force one <br/> per line break, but then it screws up things like  
bulleted and numbered lists.


On Mar 25, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Dorian Mcfarland wrote:
> try:
>
> sometext = RedCloth.new(@body, :hard_breaks)
> sometext.to_html
>
> although, judging by http://redcloth.rubyforge.org/rdoc/ that  
> should be the default behaviour, and the rails
''textilize'' method
> should also do that by default:
>
>    # File vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/ 
> text_helper.rb, line 84
> 84:         def textilize(text)
> 85:           if text.blank?
> 86:             ""
> 87:           else
> 88:             textilized = RedCloth.new(text, [ :hard_breaks ])
> 89:             textilized.hard_breaks = true if  
> textilized.respond_to?("hard_breaks=")
> 90:             textilized.to_html
> 91:           end
> 92:         end
>
> I''ve had loads of problems with various platforms and hard_breaks.
> what is your actual html output from the various options you tried?
>
>> Knowing that there''s an issue in rails with hard_breaks and  
>> textilize, I tried RedCloth.new(@body).to_html, which gave me:
>> Line1.
>> Line2.
>> Line3.Line4.
>> Am I missing something??
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
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