How to print a string in erb file including line breaks

Question

After getting an input from a user, I'm having a string like so:

str = "First line/nSecond line/nThird line"

When I'm trying to print it in my erb file like so:

<%= str %>

I'm getting only one line without any line's breaks ("First line Second line Third line")

My question is:

How to print a string in erb file including the line's breaks?

(I guess i can replace every \n with <br> tag but I wonder if there's a better way of achieving that?!)

Answer 1

You tagged this question with ruby-on-rails. Therefore, I guess you want to output the text to a webpage.

I suggest using the simple_format helper method like this:

<%= simple_format(str) %>

Example the docs:

simple_format("Here is some basic text...\n...with a line break.")
# => "<p>Here is some basic text...\n<br />...with a line break.</p>"