From: mikeleonard <mikeleonard@...>
Date: 2005-02-21T02:59:42+09:00
Subject: YAML/RedCloth Question

Hello all,

I'm very new to Ruby, so appy-polly-loggies in advance if the answer to
this is obvious.

I have a file, qbf.yml, the contents of which are:

----------------qbf.yml----------------
title: "on dogs and foxes"
author: "q.b. foks, esq."
text: "the quick brown

fox jumps

over

the lazy dog"
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I want to import it into a Ruby hash and use RedCloth to convert the
"text" portion to html. The code I'm using is this:

----------------qbf.rb----------------
require 'yaml'
require 'redcloth'

qbf=YAML::load(File.open('qbf.yml'))

puts RedCloth.new(qbf["text"]).to_html
--------------------------------------

The output I get from this is:

<p>the quick brown
fox jumps
over
the lazy dog</p>

Whereas, I would like:

<p>the quick brown</p>
<p>fox jumps</p>
<p>over</p>
<p>the lazy dog</p>

It looks like when I import the YAML, my paragraph breaks get eaten up.
I'd like to avoid this if at all possible. I'm sure the solution is
very simple, but I can't seem to get my head around it. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mike Leonard