http://www.railsweek.com/blog/ en-us 40 Rails Blog comments <p><a href="leadsonrails.com">LeadsOnRails</a> is currently deployed on Rails 1.1.6. Yesterday I added Textilize/Redcloth to part of the program and found that paragraphs did not show up as expected. I could not get blank lines between paragraphs because paragraphs were broken only by <br/> breaks, not <p>.</p> <p>After a little googling I found this to be a common complaint and saw that there is a setting to specify hard breaks or not.</p> <p>The simplest solution that seemed to work for me was to simply override the Rails implementation by putting this in helpers/application_helper.rb:</p> <pre> def textilize(str) RedCloth.new(str).to_html end </pre> <p><em>Is this dangerous in any way? Any reason not to do this this way?</em></p> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:14:00 EDT <a href="/blog/articles/2007/03/20/redcloth-textile">Redcloth Textile</a> <a href="/blog/articles/2007/03/20/redcloth-textile">Redcloth Textile</a>