ruby-on-railsxmlhttparty

detecting and processing carriage return line feed in XML response

While querying and API that responds in XML an interesting element arises when tracking in the console data fictitious, layout not:

   <address>SUTTER 10821
1032 LALALAND</address>

the parsing is being run by httpartyruby gem.
The line break in the string is saved as \n in a text datatype. Yet, when rendering in rails with .html_safe, no new line is rendered.

What is the best way to process tha address attribute at moment of writing the record?

Solution

  • You can use string manipulation, like

    record.address = xml_address.gsub("\n", "<br>")