From: anansi <kazaam@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T19:45:06+09:00
Subject: How to save and display a newlinefeed with rails?

Hi,
in my little rails application I've made a little database (create.sql) 
like this:

drop table if exists entries;

create table entries (
          id              int	       not null auto_increment,
          headline        varchar(100)  not null,
          news            text          not null,
          date_available datetime       not null,
          primary key (id)
         );

You see the news which is a text-type. Scaffold did a nice template with 
these infos where I can type in these data and save it. After that I can 
print these entries on the screen again with this *.rhtml:

<% for entry in @entries -%>
     <div class="blogentry">
         <h3><%= h(entry.headline) %></h3>
         <%= entry.news %> <br>
        <%= link_to 'read comments',
                     {:action => 'read_comments', :id => entry },
                     :class => 'read_comments' %><br/>
     </div>
     <div class="separator">&nbsp;</div>
<% end %>

But the problem is that I have now textformatting inside the entry.news 
field. E.g. how can I insert <br> after each line in entry.news?

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