On Dec 16, 9:06 pm, John Sayeau <[email protected]> wrote: > When I enter some text in a text_area with carriage returns and then > store the text in a database the carriage returns are preserved in the > db. When I get the string back the carriage returns are gone, replace by > spaces. > example. > if I enter : > > blah > blah > blah > > the db stores: > > blah > blah > blah > > when i show the record I get: > > blah blah blah > > I tried to split string by: > > <% @day.food.split('\r\n').each do |line| %> > <%= line %><br/> > <%end%> > > but it doesn't work. The \r\n is there. I put a <% p line %> in and > looked at the logs. > The string does not get split. >
Single-quoted strings don't do backslash interpolation - so the string you're passing to split is: \r\n and not what you wanted. Double-quotes will do the right thing. --Matt Jones -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
