Rails3 and safe nl2br !

Question

I have a system for the users to be able to post comments.

The comments are grasped into a textarea.

My problem is to format the comments with br tag to replace

Answer 1

As Ryan Bigg suggested simple_format is the best tool for the job: it's 'l safe' and much neater than other solutions.

so for @var:

<%= simple_format(@var) %>

If you need to sanitize the text to get rid of HTML tags, you should do this before passing it to simple_format

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-simple_format