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

I was using Ace code-editor in my rails app and i had problem, that whenever i update or create the code, it adds always extra TAB on every line (except first). I couldn't solve it with gsub or javascript replace.. But it accidently solved itself when i disabled layout for that template.

So, i solved it with

render :layout => false