Add new line using /n in text variable

Question

I have a variable in my view printed on screen as

<%= comment.comment %>

but the output has many new line characters (\n).

How do I get it to actually print new lines whenever we have a \n with comment.comment output?

Answer 1

Try this:

<%= comment.comment.gsub(/\n/, '<br />') %>

Else you can also use simple_format. Here:

<%= simple_format(comment.comment) %>