similar to: newlines in text_area

Hi there, I need to: 1. STORE a text of the below format in a (MySQL) database (using a ''textarea''), and then 2. RETRIEVE & DISPLAY it in exactly the same format (meaning: keeping all paragraphs/line breaks). The intended text format looks like this: *** Blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah, blah blahblah. <- NEW

I have a text_area to accept upto 1000 chars, which is stored as a blob in mysql. When I try to display the saved data, I dont see the new line characters - however I could see the newline characters in EDIT MODE. So my newline char is lost during displaying. Any ideas how to fix it. thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a MySQL "text" element that I''m trying to display, but it''s not formatting (i.e. it''s all one big paragraph). In the AWD depot example it doesn''t look like they do anything special, but they get formatted text. I''ve tried it with both: <%= show.description %> - puts text, and formats according to any HTML tags I typed in.

I''m writing a bloggish/CMSish thing. I had been using simple_format, but my users requested a rich editor, so I added TinyMCE. Anyway, I was trying to migrate the existing content (since TinyMCE assumes it''s reading HTML-formatted text), and realized that I couldn''t call simple_format (or other helper methods) from Migrations. Can someone enlighten me here?

Hi I''d like to know how to add default text text area using the function text_area. I ''ve tried using value = "....." to do this but with no luck. Could some one please answer my simple question? Thanks. Dan. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, Is there no way to easily resolve this. It can''t be that I''m the first that wants this, and it wouldn''t be RoR if it''s not possible. On the mysql prompt with the select description from todos .. linefeeds are show, so they are there. This is the actual contents with a linefeed after the ":" "Project contacts: delete table, point

Ruby''s simple_format method is not working for spaces. so how to add and what to add in simple format method code so it also work for spaces? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, I''m having a problem trying to get a login controller working. When I try and post to my login controller I get the following error: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in LoginController#login login_controller: class LoginController < ApplicationController def login case request.method when :post if @session[''user''] =

I''m using simple_format to format and display posted content from users. This content sometimes has urls in it. The problem I''m having is that if the urls are long enough to wrap, they do, but the url gets split with a <br> tag. Then, if the user clicks on the link, only the first, non-wrapped part of the link gets posted to the browser... and that''s an invalid

Hello, I''m making a blog and I need some function that convert the text writed for a user in a textarea into a formated text. I think to use h, but it forget paragraph breaks and I like allow some tags. By Daniel

I''m trying to use the text_area() method and would like to populate the text block with initial text. According to this: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3752 there was a fix put in place, but I''m ont sure how to integrate this. How do I get the :value parameter to show up within the textbloc instead of the html attributes? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Just running through the first little project (depot) in ''Agile Web Development with Rails''. It isn''t scaffolding like it says it should in the book. After running: >rails -d mysql depot then SQLing: drop table if exists products; create table products ( id int not null auto_increment, title varchar(100) not null, description text not null, image_url varchar(200)

Hi all, Since I am new to ruby on rails. I''m stuck in some minor issue. I am using form_for in my view. In that I am using a text text. So, My question is, how to add a default value to the text_area along with the row and col values. Please help me out ASAP. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

Hi! I have a "text_area" that looks like this... <%= text_area ''business'', ''otherDigitalDesc'', "cols" => 25, "rows" => 4, "value" => "Enter Description if Yes..." %> Right now, if I submit it, it adds "Enter Description if Yes" into the database. It would be nice to not have it enter

Hello all, In a summary page I need to show the 1st 100 chars of textilized messages. Problem: truncate(..) would often cut in the middle of html tags => random result. My first idea was to "repair" the broken text with Hpricot (as I use it elsewhere in the project), but it''s not perfect: <h1>abcd</h would give <h1>abcd</h</h1> (I also use

Hello, Is it possible to fill the textarea content when using the text_area function ? Why there is 2 , + or - similar class : FormHelper and FormTagHelper ?

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/.

I''m having trouble succesfully getting access to the ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper.strip_tags method from one of my controllers. If I try to call it directly using ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper.strip_tags I get undefined method `strip_tags'' for ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper:Module What is the preferred way to make ActionView helpers available to a descendant of

I have a textarea that accepts a shipping address, so I need to convert newlines when it is displayed as html. I am new to ruby, and rails so an example would be appreciated. I want to do this in the ''display'', not the stored text if possible, since I use the newlines when generating a pdf. Thanks. charley -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i have uploaded file,but when i am opening it in R,using > u<-file(file.choose(),"r") >k<-readLines(u) >k > k[1:120] is has all /t (tabs)& newlines, how to avoid it, can i take first 3 columns only in table form (lines starts with # not important for me) uploaded file:- http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4577757/rabata.txt rabata.txt -- View this message in