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Hi @ all I would like to enter a text with a text_area into the database. It runs excellent. But when I want to show the entered text in the show view, all newlines (paragraphs) are deleted and the text is only one block. How can I save the returns (newlines) too? Thanks for helping!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

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 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''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

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

Greetings! I''m having a hard time understanding the way Rails handles urls. I''m specifically having real trouble with the image_urls in the Depot app in the Agile Web Development book. If I enter "\image\file.png" in the Add Product page, the image is displayed in the other views and Properties shows http://localhost:3000/images/file.png If I leave off the leading

Greetings! I could really use some help understanding what Rails puts into the session store related to the objects it creates. I''ve found documentation on how _I_ can put / get info into it, but can''t find the docs on what _Rails_ puts into it. I''ve got a simple app that collects some data from the user, stores it in a db record, allows the user to edit it, display

I''ve got a model, "category" and another model "subcategory." Each subcategory belongs_to a category, and a category has_many subcategories. What I need to do is set it up so that I can search Category and Subcategory with one .find call. So: Category.find(:all, <etc) will find categories and subcategories. Now, I believe this can be done by making

In the page 148 of the AWD book it''s mentioned that the while testing @products and @version_control_book are automatically made available. That''s not the case with me. In my test environment I don''t get those two variables. I was wondering if anything has changed in Rails 1.1 because in the new edition of the book (AWD - edition 2) there is no mention of such

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 model that deals with HTML and I want to use the text_helper.sanitize method to strip the HTML of Javascript. However, it doesn''t appear that I can get easy access to the text_helper methods from within a model. Anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? In general, I think that there are some ActionView helpers which are generic enough to want to use in a model class.

Hi, I really like selenium, and I just tried the plugin created Jonas Bengtsson. However I cannot get it to run on rails 1.1 and coundn''t find anyone complaining about it? Did anyone get it to run on rails 1.1.2? Greets, Abdur-Rahman

Hi, I am new to Rails and got the "Agile Web Dev with Rails book", following along with the examples...starting the Depot sample app, but am running into segmentation faults and my WEBrick console looks like this: <error> http://127.0.0.1:3000/admin/ -> /admin/show/1 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller ration.rb:45: [BUG] Segmentation fault

Question for all: Right now i have a Table in a mySQL DB that has a row called Ingredients. When the data is entered into the DB its enter like so from a text area: 1 1/2 lbs. beef top sirloin, thinly sliced 1/3 cup white sugar 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons frozen OJ concentrate 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 cup long grain rice 2 cups water 1/4 cup cornstarch 2 teaspoons

All, I have a little namespace collision here. I am trying to use both RubyfulSoup (an HTML parser - which I highly recommend by the way) and the ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper class. Within the TextHelper class, there''s an attempt to create a new "Tag" object. However, Tag is also defined in the RubyfulSoup gem and it is _this_ Tag class whose initialize method is

I''ve been creating my tables using the command line approach Dave advocates in AWD. I just noticed that they''re being created as MyISAM-type tables. I remember reading (but not where) that I should be creating these as InnoDB-type tables. So, two questions... 1) Is the table type important? (a "why" component to the answer would be nice too ;-) ) 2) If so, is

Can anyone point me to an example of how to use the Insertion.Before technique? I''ve just begun trying to use AJAX and worked through Curt''s "Ajax on Rails". The description in AWD of what this does is just what I need, there''s no example of how to use it, and I''m getting no joy using Google. Any help is tremendously appreciated. -------------- next

Hi, I want to access TextHelper and UrlHelper methods in my model so how i am able to access it ? I was included following helper in my model but still it is not working? also for accessing these helper method w need to give external reference? E.g. class Xyz include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper include ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper Also