Rails/ERB with Redcarpet: HTML disappearing

Question

If I start rails console and enter:

Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::HTML.new).render("line 1  \nline 2").html_safe

(Remember in markdown 2 spaces before a line break means a forced line break) I get the expected: line 1 \nline 2\n

But if I use this code in ERB, all I see in my page source is the original text wrapped in a . The line break escape characters are preserved, but the 2 spaces are gone and there is no  .

What gives? Thanks for your wisdom. Extra kudos if you explain how I could isolate the problem myself!

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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I belive You chould do something like

...render("line 1  \nline 2".gsub(/\n/, '<br/>')).html_safe

Well explained here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Aug 11 '14 at 07:23

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '14 at 09:30

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The workaround that I settled on is to use the "hard wrap" option in Redcarpet. This actually is totally acceptable for my use case but I am still curious, so I'll change the accepted answer if anyone comes up with a solution to the original problem.

answered Aug 12 '14 at 09:30

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Rails/ERB with Redcarpet: HTML disappearing

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