In Rails - is there a rails method to convert newlines to ?

Question

Is there a Railsy way to convert \\n to
?

Currently, I\'m doing it like this:

mystring.gsub(/\\n/, \'
\')
         


        

Answer 1

Nope. What you have there is the commonly used alternative. The definition most people use is:

   def nl2br text
       text.gsub(/\n/, '
')
   end

It is named as such because it mimics the functionality of the PHP function by the same name.