Rails — Add a line break into a text area

Question

I got a rails app where I can input a few paragraphs of text into my model. The problem is I dont know how to input any line breaks.

I\'ve tried to add \" {ln}{/ln}

Answer 1

What version of rails are you using?? Because the way to handle this, is different in rails 2 and 3.

Let's say the value of the record is "foo
bar"

In rails 3, if you want to evaluate the html, you could do <%=raw "foo
bar" %>, if you do so, you'll get a line break when you will see the view.

In rails 2 you don't have to do that, just do <%= "foo
bar" %>

Also, HTML doesn't get evaluated in a textarea anyway.