Rails 3: How to display properly text from “textarea”?

Question

In my Rails 3 application I use textarea to let users to write a new message in a forum.

However, when the message is displayed, all newlines look like spac

Answer 1

If someone still gets redirected here and uses Rails 4: http://apidock.com/rails/v4.0.2/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper/simple_format

You can now specify the tag it gets wrapped in (defaults to p) like so:

simple_format(my_text, {}, wrapper_tag: "div")
# => "
Here is some basic text...\n
...with a line break.
"